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Comic Riffs: Barry Blitt
IMAGE OF THE DAY: New Yorker cover artist sends Spider-Man to the hospital
Barry Blitt had a big assignment and very little time, and that was precisely when his Spidey sense of humor kicked in: What if the webslinger, he mused, was rendered as a Last Traction Hero? "The first thing that...
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07:30 AM ET, 01/11/2011 |
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In Memoriam: New Yorker cartoonist LEO CULLUM's warm and witty legacy
(courtesy of the New Yorker) There's the stereotype of the gag cartoonist as a somewhat maladjusted shut-in, forever shackled to a drawing board and a deadline, let out only for book tours and comics conventions. Then, as the one-man...
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02:00 PM ET, 10/26/2010 |
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