New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
David Levine on writers: Walt Whitman
David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.
Lit Toons: Henrietta's Reading Adventures (5 of 21)
In 2015, The New Yorker published a set of single-panel cartoons by the cartoonist known as Liniers. Henrietta’s Reading Adventures, billed as an “illustrated tour of a young reader’s imagination,” starred a major character from Liniers' Macanudo comic strip. Henrietta, a young girl who loves to read, tackled a different book in each panel of the “illustrated tour.”
First Lines: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
The first hippopotamus, a male the colour of black pearls weighing a ton and a half, was shot dead in 2009.
The Sound of Things Falling
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
David Levine on writers: Milan Kundera
David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.
Lit Toons: Henrietta's Reading Adventures (4 of 21)
In 2015, The New Yorker published a set of single-panel cartoons by the cartoonist known as Liniers. Henrietta’s Reading Adventures, billed as an “illustrated tour of a young reader’s imagination,” starred a major character from Liniers' Macanudo comic strip. Henrietta, a young girl who loves to read, tackled a different book in each panel of the “illustrated tour.”
First Lines: Antoine Wilson
If you set aside love and friendship and the bonds of family, luck, religion, and spirituality, the desire to better mankind, and music and art, and hunting and fishing and farming, self-importance, and public and private transportation from buses to bicycles, if you set all that aside money is what makes the world go around.
Panorama City
Antoine Wilson
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