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We lost George Orwell on this day in 1930 – remember him with Ralph Steadman’s little-known, magnificent illustrations for Animal Farm.

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Lynda Barry’s inspired and assuring field guide to mastering the creative process

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In 1947, ten cartoonists drew their most famous characters blindfolded. Best thing since famous authors’ hand-drawn self-portraits, which invariably require a different kind of blindness.

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Beloved British cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s superb vintage illustrations for George Orwell's Animal Farm, published on August 17, 1945.

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The great R. Crumb illustrates Bukowski, born on this day in 1920.

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“ Where my father was tentative and gentle,” Chast writes, “she was critical and uncompromising.” And: “Even though I knew he couldn’t really defend me against my mother’s rages, I sensed that at least he felt some sympathy, and that he liked me as a...

Where my father was tentative and gentle,” Chast writes, “she was critical and uncompromising.” And: “Even though I knew he couldn’t really defend me against my mother’s rages, I sensed that at least he felt some sympathy, and that he liked me as a person, not just because I was his daughter.“

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s remarkable, raw, relatable memoir of her parents’ aging, illness, and death is nothing short of a masterpiece.

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This Scott Metzger cartoon reminds me of the excellent French short film The Oppressed Majority.

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Half a century before Lolcats, legendary British cartoonist Ronald Searle did the cat meme

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The one common thread that ran through all [the New Yorker cartoons] I studied in the New York Public Library was that they made the reader think. You had to be a participant in the experience, up-to-date on the latest trends and buzzwords, aware of the world around you, and possessing a mental flexibility able to appreciate different comic visions, techniques, and talents.

Bob Mankoff, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor since 1997, on what makes a great cartoon and how he got to where he is.

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For Flannery O'Connor’s birthday, her little-known satirical catoons

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Style is a combination of how you naturally draw but also bits and pieces of “shiny things” that you take from other people… Somebody does something in a way that you never thought of before, and you can learn from that.

The New Yorker takes us on a home visit with the magnificent Roz Chast, who drew her first cartoon for the magazine in 1978 and whose 1,267th appears in this month’s issue.

Pair with Jonathan Lethem on the ecstasy of influence.

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For Dr. Seuss’s 110th birthday today, his little-known WWII anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons

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“ “Everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it.” ”
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“Everything has its testing point in the eye, and the eye is an organ that eventually involves the whole personality, and as much of the world as can be got into it.”

Flannery O'Connor’s cartoons

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Legendary cartoonist Ralph Steadman’s inkblot dog drawings

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Absolutely brilliant cartoon by Randy Glasbergen, explaining in modern terms why we have books.