When The Beatles made their way to Chicago’s South Side for two performances on August 20th, 1965, you can bet that now-established painter and cartoonist Carol Tyler was there, too. Her new comics memoir tells the story.
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Two of us sending postcards, writing letters
Just after her baby Riel was born in March of 2015, comics artist, painter, and illustrator Alison McCreesh began to fantasize about carting him and her husband Pat on a sprawling journey that would take them to regions of the world that are classified under the “Circumpolar” category — Finland, Russia, Greenland (Denmark), and elsewhere.
Dots and darkness
Known primarily for his absurdist comics and the satirical cartoons he’s contributed to magazines and newspapers over the years, Michael Kupperman is entirely unfunny in the mostly three-paneled black and white pages of All the Answers.
Report them in pictures
Famous news photographer Weegee worked for a bunch of New York City newspapers in his day, but only one of them distinguished itself with an emphasis on illustrated reportage.
In Maggie Haberman’s biography of Trump, drive-by diagnoses and political pop psychology helps “supply an all-purpose alibi for the media-political-entertainment complex that first summoned Trump’s national brand into being” @thenation https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/maggie-haberman-trump/
Another very good Sam we know
@SammBlum I knew it, and that’s why I was in disbelief. You’re off the hook…for now 🕵️♂️