A Conversation with Frank Cotham - November 8, 2024

The New Yorker: How Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics and Pop Culture Into Cartoon Gold

Steve Brodner: A Kaddish for America

Here is the one and only Steve Brodner on the election results and why this country has chosen this path. This is from his substack The Greater Quiet.

USA Election

 

Steve Bonello's "The Triumph of Darkness," which he originally created in 2017, seems apt now. 

Vote

Stop reading the internet. Go out and participate in this participatory democracy already. Here's hoping we can keep it.

 

From Tomi Ungerer's Compromises, copyright 1970 and published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

Jean Jullien’s "Paper Society" Installation

 

From Jean Julien, some of his "paper society people" show at the Publik Gasan in Seoul. Link to video tour here.

While I am familiar with Saul Steinberg, who took cartoon iconography into the art world, Jean Julien's work is new to me. It sure makes me smile and makes me wish I lived closer to Seoul!

 

 

The Garden As of November 1st

 

Pulling up the zinnias in the garden on this fine fall afternoon.

 

 Progress!

 Now, where that rake ... ?