Tag: New Yorker
OBITUARY: New Yorker artist and Le Petit Nicolas co-creator Jean-Jacques Sempé
Le Petit Nicolas co-creator and New Yorker artist Jean-Jacques Sempé has died, aged 89
INTERVIEW: Will McPhail talks his first graphic novel, IN, and why parrots deserve more...
With his first graphic novel IN, Will McPhail serves up a moving blend of drama and humor.
A Year of Free Comics: Julia Wertz on her Creepy Experience Reading Pet Sematary
A True Story About Reading Pet Sematary As A Ten Year Old is a perfect way to get to know Julia Wertz comics
A Year of Free Comics: Summer Pierre Reads the Letters of Sylvia Plath
What does Sylvia Plath's letter correspondence tells us about her life?
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/15/19: Cartoonist gets major profile in the New Yorker
Surprise: it's Nick Drnaso.
Pioneering woman cartoonist Barbara Shermund’s remains lay unclaimed for 35 years – but now...
This story is happy, sad, eerie and empowering all at once.
Review: Liana Finck’s ‘Passing For Human’ gets to the core of all of us
One of the things I like best about Liana Finck is her ability to not only be the only thing like her in comics but to communicate that fact clearly and with charm. Seldom...
A Year of Free Comics: Emily Flake’s “Young and Dumb Inside” is one of...
We've never been stingy with praise of Emily Flake here. Her Lulu Eightball webcomic skewered millennial life before we never even knew what to call it and she carried her sharp, whimsical humor right...
INTERVIEW: Frank Viva on Narrative Experimentation and Graphic Design in SEA CHANGE
Francoise Mouly "said to me on several occasions that she doesn’t really want to be doing what other book publishers are doing. Why should I? There’s lots of them out there doing that. Let’s try some new stuff. That is her attitude. She loves experimentation."
Nice Art: Jaime Hernandez hot dogs the New Yorker
The New Yorker has been on a recent run of covers by cartoonists, with Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes doing recent covers. Now Jaime Hernandez has joined the gang with a cover for the annual...
Nice Art: Adrian Tomine’s New Yorker cover gallery a snapshot of gentrification
Adrian Tomine, whose collection Killing and Dying is what everyone is going to be talking about this fall, has the cover of this week's New Yorker and it's s typically note perfect image of gentrification in the face of raw sewage, otherwise known as Life In These Here Five Boroughs. The above link has a gallery of Tomine's other covers and they are all equally perfect, although I'm particularly partial to the one about moving to Jersey. Others love this updated "Shop round the Corner" image from 2008.
Adrian Tomine covers The New Yorker with 9/11 Memorial
This week's New Yorker has a cover by Adrian Tomine, and he discusses it inside the magazine:
“When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and museum were going to be the top tourist attractions in...