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Ed Koren, Rob Tornoe, Ed Steckley, Barry Blitt, and George Metzger.
See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren
Olivia Hoffman of Ohio State’s The Lantern talks to Jenny Robb of The Billy Ireland Library and Museum and to Cartoonist James Sturm who is curating the Museum’s See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren exhibit on display until May 4, 2025.
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Tornoe’s Corner
A week before Zuckerberg announced his infamous decision Rob Tornoe cartooned about it.
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When We Went MAD! The Unauthorized Story of Mad Magazine
One particular event I’ve been eagerly anticipating was a long gestating behemoth of an endeavor, one that’s finally gotten to see the light of day. After over a decade in the making, Filmmaker/Director Alan Bernstein’s exhaustively researched passion project, the documentary When We Went MAD! The Unauthorized Story of Mad Magazine has been unleashed into the wild. Well, sort of…
Ed Steckley discusses the making of the long in production documentary and his part in it.
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Cover Story: Barry Blitt’s “Two’s a Crowd”
The New Yorker released the cover of their January 20, 2025 dated issue early.
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Help George Metzger move into a care home.
In 1967, George Metzger began serializing his counterculture comic strip Beyond Time and Again [link added] in underground West coast newspapers, combining high fantasy with prescient views of science, climate change, and political authoritarianism.
George Metzger moved on with his Moondog comix books. A cartoonist with artistic visions.
Now George could use some help.
Legendary underground comics creator George Metzger can no longer live at home and has moved into long-term care.
Over the past year, his health has been in decline…
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