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The Great Art Comic Evangelist: A Tribute to Art Spiegelman
The Great Art Comic Evangelist: A Tribute to Art Spiegelman
The Great Art Comic Evangelist: A Tribute to Art Spiegelman
Many comics creators can be applauded for garnering the art form a more popular legitimacy, but it can be argued that nobody has done more than Art Spiegelman. Born to Holocaust survivors on February 15, 1948, Spiegelman has acted as comics' ambassador for decades, working to reduce the gap between the perceived high art of the galleries and the perceived low art of the comics page. And it wasn't entirely because of Maus...
Late Night With Seth Meyers Live Action New Yorker Cartoons
Late Night With Seth Meyers Live Action New Yorker Cartoons
Late Night With Seth Meyers Live Action New Yorker Cartoons
We all love The New Yorker's sometimes funny, often obtuse, impossibly refined cartoons, don't we? But it has always seemed that they were missing something: The human touch. The staff at Late Night with Seth Meyers looked to add that missing element in a bit this week that looked to break the magazine's famous cartoons out of their one-panel shells and make them full-on stage productions featurin
Ivan Brunetti’s Covers For ‘The New Yorker’ Are Diverse And Personal [Art]
Ivan Brunetti’s Covers For ‘The New Yorker’ Are Diverse And Personal [Art]
Ivan Brunetti’s Covers For ‘The New Yorker’ Are Diverse And Personal [Art]
Many of the greatest cartoonists and illustrators working in comics today have provided cover art for the The New Yorker over the years, and Ivan Brunetti is no exception. The Ignatz Award-winning creator of Schizo has done several covers for the magazine, but it still came as a pleasant surprise to see his latest contribution, which adorns this week's issue. The cover celebrates the arrival of summer, and comes a few weeks after the release of Brunetti's new book -- Aesthetics: A Memoir, an illustrated autobiography that traces his trajectory as an artist from childhood doodles to his professional work.
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
What does it take to get your cartoon published in the New Yorker? Box Brown, creator of the webcomics Bellen! and Everything Dies, has been trying to crack the code. Last summer, after Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist Kate Beaton became the first webcomics creator to have a cartoon published in the New Yorker, webcartoonist Brown posted a Bellen... Read More ...
Roger Ebert Finally Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest After 107 Tries
Roger Ebert Finally Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest After 107 Tries
Roger Ebert Finally Wins New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest After 107 Tries
Film critic Robert Ebert is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning and occasionally brutal reviews of movies, but despite his acclaim in the world of criticism, we have learned today that Ebert is still a man much like the rest of us, a man who puts his pants on one leg at a time, a man who just wants to win a cartoon caption contest, dammit...

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