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Recent Posts

Dec 5th, Swann Gallery: Panel Discussion and Auction Preview

December 2, 2019 by CartoonStock

Still Reading It for the Cartoons: Changing Production Methods & Public Perception in Illustration Thursday, December 5 6:00 to 8:00 PM At Swann Auction Galleries: 104 East 25th Street, Fl. 5, New York, NY 10010 Hear from cartoonists Emily Flake and Benjamin Schwartz, both regular contributors to The New Yorker, alongside Swann Galleries specialist Christine…
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Dec 4th: Bob Mankoff and Roz Chast Talk Jewish Humor

December 1, 2019 by CartoonStock

Dec 4th, 7:30 pm Buttenwieser Hall, 92nd Street Y, NYC Come prepared to laugh your head off and then right back on as former New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff and the iconic Roz Chast Jewsplain how The People of The Book became The People of The Joke in honor of the new Have I…
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Cartoons for Teachers: Reach Your Students with Humor

November 29, 2019 by CartoonStock

It feels we are gradually returning to business as usual; more people are back in the office, and most students are back in the hallways. Classroom teaching is back! But keeping students’ attention and helping them retain information may be harder than ever. During the lockdown, students had few outlets and were more glued to…
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Cartoons for Lawyers: Market Your Practice with Humor

November 29, 2019 by CartoonStock

If you’re a practicing lawyer, chances are you’ve made many presentations, whether to a jury, a client, or a board of directors. You’ve probably sat through mandatory continuing education programs, wondering why the presentation isn’t more engaging. A PowerPoint consisting of nothing but charts and text can be painfully dull; soon the audience checks out….
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“Mailman” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

November 27, 2019 by Lawrence Wood

In Drew Panckeri’s cartoon, a man who’s sitting on his front step as if it were a throne is holding an icicle as if it were a scepter. He’s flanked by five vaguely threatening snowmen, and they’re all looking at a postal worker who’s delivering the mail. The man who would be king is addressing…
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Remembering Gahan Wilson

November 27, 2019 by Bob Mankoff

Dear cartoon lovers, Gahan Wilson, one of the great greats of the art of the single-panel cartoon, died last week. I knew him as a colleague and friend and was his editor at The New Yorker from 1997 to 2016, where he published over six hundred cartoons. This was the last cartoon he published there…
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