Stanley Kubrick Photographs Cartoonist Peter Arno (1949)

Kubrick was a child prodigy photographer and was employed doing photo features for Look Magazine in the 1950s when he was just 16 years old. Did you know that? I did not until my friend Paul Giambarba sent me a photo of Arno that was taken by the teenaged Kubrick last week.

Here are a few of the many photos of Peter Arno from the Museum of the City of New York site. Click on that link for what looks like all of the photos (and some of the proof sheets) that Kubrick took that day and that night of this seminal New Yorker cartoonist.

These photos are © 2014 MNY all rights reserved:

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Paul Giambarba on "The Irreverent Genius of Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr."

Mike Lynch: Peter Arno's Favorite Part

Mike Lynch Cartoon in SEARLE IN AMERICA Exhibition Catalog

Above: the cover of the exhibition catalog.

The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco has another month left to go for its "Searle in America" exhibition. The show runs until Saturday, March, 30, 2014. It's a stunning collection of original art pieces that Ronald Searle created for US publications and it was curated by Matt Jones. Matt not only does good things over at his day job at the animation studio Pixar, but he also runs the great Ronald Searle Tribute blog. 

The costs to ship all of this to San Francisco were high. Matt decided an art auction should be held to help. When the call went out to artists to contribute their own original works in the style of Searle, many contributed for a large eBay sale this past fall.

It was my pleasure to send on an illustration. Matt kindly decided to include some of the artists' work in the catalog. Here's mine, on the upper right:

If you get a chance, make the trip to see this.

And Matt promises a bigger coffee table book of Searle's little-known American work soon.

Above: a closer angle on my Searle tribute sketch.

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. SEARLE -- born this day in 1920!

Graphic Novel Preview: CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? by Roz Chast

Cartoonist Roz Chast writes:

"This week's issue of The New Yorker has an excerpt from the graphic memoir about my parents' decline. Here's a link."

It's a graphic memoir titled “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” and it will be published this May. Roz has been a cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1978.