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Unmasked

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

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With Halloween just around the corner, it’s only fitting that The New Yorker magazine included a strip by Chris Ware on the subject of hiding, masks and disguises in its annual Cartoon Issue. You can read the whole four-page piece in glorious hi-res online.

Also in the website is a cartoon kit competition with art by Alex Gregory. In the paper magazine, you’ll also find cartoons by P. C. Vey, Frank Cotham, Bruce Eric Kaplan, William Haefeli, Victoria Roberts, Matthew Diffee, Drew Dernavich, Mike Twohy, David Sipress, and Jack Ziegler, and a hilarious take on Facebook by Roz Chast.

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Van der Veken for The New Yorker

Monday, October 26th, 2009

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Flemish illustrator Jan Van Der Veken will be doing the cover to the January 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. Last week he announced on his Facebook page that his design had been approved, but this morning Flemish comics news blog Stripgids made it official.

Congrats, Jan !

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Le Petit Nicolas on stamps

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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The French Post Office announced a new set of stamps yesterday featuring illustrations from the well-loved Petit Nicolas books by author and comic writer René Goscinny and cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.

The stamps were launched to coincide with the premiere of the Petit Nicolas film, later this week.

Le Petit Nicolas was first published in 1959. In that same year Goscinny, who had already gained notoriety thanks to the Lucky Luke stories he wrote for Morris, would become editor of Pilote Magazine, and would create the famous Astérix Le Gaule series with Albert Uderzo. Jean-Jacques Sempé, who had already started publishing in Paris-Match, would later become quite famous in the US as well for his cartoons and covers for the New Yorker magazine.

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Magazine covers galore

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

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Cartoonists’ work appears on magazine covers all over the place these days. Case in point : Chris Ware for Granta 108 (above), Jen Sorensen for the University Of Virginia Magazine’s Fall 2009 issue and Ivan Brunetti for the New Yorker, September 7 issue (after the click).

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The Bible According to R. Crumb

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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The June, 8 issue of the New Yorker contains an excerpt from R. Crumb’s long-awaited new book, an illustrated version of the Bible, with an introduction by Françoise Mouly. The story is the well-known tale of how God created heaven and earth, and how man and woman betrayed God’s trust by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.

The art is quintessential Crumb – bearded old guys and well-toned, muscular women. But what’s even more interesting, is that he has started from the literal text, not a contemporary rewrite or interpretation. This renders the result more direct, more primitive, and, in my opinion, much more appealing.

The Bible seems to be quite in demand these days. On my daily commute, I’m currently listening to David Plotz’ audio version of this Good Book, in which he annotates his attempt to actually read the Bible from cover to cover. Highly recommended, if only for Plotz’ wry remarks when he again finds totally un-PC cruelty, paternalism or just plain bad editing.

(artwork © R. Crumb)

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Dan Clowes announces new work

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Coinciding with his wonderful cover from this week’s issue of The New Yorker (above), Leigh Stein of the New Yorker Books blog gives a sneak peak of the new book Dan Clowes is currently working on :

Each page of the book is an individual scene, a joke on the format of a Sunday cartoon strip, but cumulatively the scenes create a larger narrative that turns from comic to tragic.

Something to look forward to.

(The New Yorker © 2009 Condé Nast Digital. All rights reserved.)

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Tomine blogs

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

The most recent recruit of the ever-expanding legion of blogging cartoonists is none other than Adrian Tomine. For a few weeks now he’s been keeping us up to date of his many projects, including illustration jobs like the one above, from the New Yorker.

(illustration © Adrian Tomine, but he told me I could use it as long as I don’t make any money with it – thanks, man !)

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