Podcast appearances and mentions of barry blitt

Giuseppe Castellano talks to Sam Viviano, award-winning cartoonist, and former art director of MAD Magazine, about his membership in MAD's usual gang of idiots; what the careers of Norman Mingo and Jack Davis can teach today's illustrators; why creatives, even the worrywarts, should keep on keeping on; and more.Sam can be found on Instagram.Artists mentioned in this episode include: Steve Brodner, Herbert Lawrence Block, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, George Woodbridge, Al Jaffee, Dave Berg, Brad Holland, Guy Billout, Nicholas Blechman, Peter de Sève, Anita Kunz, Barry Blitt, Jack Unruh, Sergio Aragonés, and Don Martin If you find value in this podcast, you can support it by subscribing to our best-selling publication, Notes On Illustration, on Substack. Among other benefits, you will gain access to bonus episodes we call “Extra Credit”. | Visit illustrationdept.com for offerings like mentorships and portfolio reviews, testimonials, our alumni showcase, and more. | Music for the podcast was created by Oatmello.

Host Piya Chattopadhyay sets up the federal election with The Economist's Rob Russo, Le Devoir's Emilie Nicolas and The Hub's Sean Speer, Kenneth Roth looks back on nearly three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, The Sunday Magazine's Levi Garber explores how tariff uncertainty is affecting border communities, Barry Blitt reflects on the art of political cartooning, and we consider what Canada's symbols say about us.Discover more at cbc.ca/sunday

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Monday, March 3, and reports on the fallout from Donald Trump's heated Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump-Musk backlash. Plus, The New Yorker's Barry Blitt joins. John Sipher, Jason Johnson and Brooke Harrington also join.

Negotiators attempt to establish a six-week cease-fire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas before the start of the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan; Portugal holds a snap parliamentary election with a far-right party gaining traction; international films gain prominence at the ninety-sixth Academy Awards; and Chinese President Xi Jinping breaks with the thirty-year tradition of the premier's press conference after the National People's Congress.   Mentioned on the Podcast   J.A. Bayona, Society of the Snow   Ilker Çatak, The Teachers' Lounge   Manohla Dargis, “‘The Zone of Interest' Review: The Holocaust, Reduced to Background Noise,” New York Times   Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano   Greta Gerwig, Barbie   Johnathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest   Andrea Kannapell, Hwaida Saad, and Michael D. Shear, “‘We Need a Cease-Fire,' Biden Says.” New York Times   Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things   Françoise Mouly, “Barry Blitt's ‘Slappenheimer',” New Yorker   Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer   Celine Song, Past Lives   Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall   Wim Wenders, Perfect Days   For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at:  https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/ramadan-cease-fire-prospects-portugals-snap-election-oscars-go-international-and-more 

Barry Blitt wants you to laugh at him, not with him. Because laughing with him means you'd have to be where he is. And, “thanks very much,” but he'd rather not. He's happy enough just drawing for himself. _____ “I'm trying to make myself laugh,” he says. “That's the point, that's part of the process, it's as un-self-conscious as possible.” _____ Blitt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, and an Art Directors Club Hall of Famer. He's been called one of the “pre-eminent American satirists.” And in a recent interview – he was asked what makes him laugh. His answer? “Awkwardness. When people are uncomfortable.” _____ Which… as it turns out… is right in Blitt's, uh, dis-comfort zone. In the introduction to his 2017 book, Blitt sums up the effect of all that attention and all those accolades: “I've never felt more naked,” he wrote. _____ Artists are especially prone to self-doubt. They pour their hearts and souls into their creations, whether it's painting or sculpting or writing — or cartooning. Then, they have to find the courage to put that work out into the world. A world full of critics and judgment and rejection. “I don't see how the work can be separate from who you are,” Blitt says. _____ And in today's explosive media climate … where standing by your work can sometimes mean life or death … Blitt shrugs: “It's amazing that I haven't been punched. But I'm only 65 and, you know, there's plenty of time for that, I expect. Especially with the hostilities and tensions in the air.” _____ Regardless, Blitt continues to churn out work. He's completed over 300 assignments for The New Yorker alone – more than 100 of them covers. That work led to his Pulitzer in 2020 “for work,” the committee said, “that skewers the personalities and policies emanating from the Trump White House with deceptively sweet watercolor style and seemingly gentle caricatures.” _____ We talked to Barry about the time he made a Time magazine art director cry, about who and what makes him laugh, about his biggest paycheck ever, about what weed can do for your creativity, and about fighting every urge in his body to self-edit.

On part 2 of this week's episode, we interview Illustrator, New Yorker Cover Artist and Cartoonist, Barry Blitt.  Barry talks about how he got his start as an illustrator and selling his first cartoon and cover to the New Yorker.  We also discuss some of his most well-known covers including the controversial July 21, 2008 Barack and Michelle Obama cover art.  Finally, we chat about selling original artwork and his regular appearances in the New Yorker for Blitt's Kvetchbook as well as Airmail's Sketchbook. Visit Barry's website  www.barryblitt.comOn Part 1 of the episode, we discuss...    The winning caption for New Yorker contest #817   Finalists for contest #819   Current New Yorker Contest #821 Send us questions or comments to:  Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

On this week's episode I talk to Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Barry Blitt. He illustrates cartoons for the New Yorker and other publications. He has contributed over 100 covers to the New Yorker. He talks to me about his inspiration, what his son thinks of his work, his controversial 2008 cover depicting the Obamas fist bumping in the Oval Office, and more. Also, the listener challenge will be extended one week so that we can get more of your answers, and book nook is back. All this on this week's episode of News Nerds! Ezra --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/newsnerds/message

If anyone knows what it's like to have Trump own their headspace for four years, it's Barry Blitt. The AIR MAIL contributor and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist has produced some of the most cutting commentaries on the president. This week, he tells how he creates his illustrations, and how he may detox after these four years. In addition, Mike and Ashley discuss some of the week's other grifters and charlatans, as well as some people that you'll find truly inspiring.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this week’s podcast, sharp-eyed AIR MAIL satirist Barry Blitt on four years of drawing That Guy … and how he might detox If anyone knows what it’s like to have Trump own their headspace for four years, it’s Barry Blitt. The air mail contributor and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist has produced some of the most cutting commentaries on the president. This week, he tells how he creates his illustrations, and how he may detox after these four years. In addition, Mike and Ashley discuss some of the week’s other grifters and charlatans, as well as some people that you’ll find truly inspiring. Listen by clicking Play below. But be sure to subscribe at Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you don’t miss an episode. View on Air Mail

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened the show by opening lines, to talk with listeners about the Baker administration’s efforts to keep schools opened in Mass., despite of surging coronavirus cases. Medical ethicist Art Caplan broke down the latest news around coronavirus vaccines, including the logistics and timeline of distributing them throughout the world, and the importance of staying cautious in the months leading up to their widespread national distribution. CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem talked about President Trump’s continued attempts to negate his election loss, with the recent firing of Christopher Krebs, who headed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and who pushed back against the president's claims of widespread election hacking. Boston Globe culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt discussed her new multimedia series for the Boston Globe called “A Beautiful Resistance,” about celebrating Blackness in America. She also weighed in on the historically tragedy-oriented coverage of Blackness that was a partial inspiration for creating the series, and Kamala Harris' soon-to-be role of first Black first lady of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Barry Blitt talked about his decades-long career as a political cartoonist, and reflected on his experience lampooning President Trump throughout his campaign and presidency. Journalist Sy Montgomery talked about the return of pets to the White House in the form of Champ and Major, Joe Biden’s two German Shepards. She also touched on some notable pets of presidents past, and discussed the various ways turtles troubleshoot when they end up on their backs. We closed out Wednesday’s program by returning to listeners, to talk about your feelings on presidential pets.

The New Yorker contributor Barry Blitt; cartoonist Pia Guerra; and Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes explore the art of political cartooning with Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. For more info, visit jfklibrary.org/forums.

Last week Barry Blitt was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for editorial cartooning. Debbie to him about where his ideas come from.

Illustrator and Cartoonist, Barry Blitt, talks to Giuseppe Castellano about why showing his drawings to Major League baseball players helped start Barry’s career; how he and art editor, Françoise Mouly, of The New Yorker have worked together for decades to create more than 100 covers; and why illustrators can be overly self-critical.

Debbie talks to New Yorker celebrated cover artist Barry Blitt about where his ideas come from.

Debbie talks to New Yorker celebrated cover artist Barry Blitt about where his ideas come from.

New York Times theater critic Jesse Green and playwright Paul Rudnick join Kurt to discuss groundbreaking gay theater over the past 50 years. How will plays like “Angels in America” and “Torch Song Trilogy,” which are being revived, hold up for today’s audiences, and what’s the future hold for plays about the LBGT community? Plus, Barry Blitt, the illustrator whose work is frequently featured on the cover of The New Yorker, gives Kurt a tour of his work studio -- and some insights into how he creates his brilliant and hilarious illustrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times theater critic Jesse Green and playwright Paul Rudnick join Kurt to discuss groundbreaking gay theater over the past 50 years. How will plays like “Angels in America” and “Torch Song Trilogy,” which are being revived, hold up for today’s audiences, and what’s the future hold for plays about the LBGT community? Plus, Barry Blitt, the illustrator whose work is frequently featured on the cover of The New Yorker, gives Kurt a tour of his work studio -- and some insights into how he creates his brilliant and hilarious illustrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illustrator and political cartoonist Barry Blitt is best known for his New Yorker covers. Over the past three decades, he’s paired his signature ink and watercolors with his dry wit. This past fall he published a beautiful coffee-table book that’s a retrospective of his most memorable work.  Blitt invited Studio 360 to meet him at his home in Connecticut—which happens to be the former home of Arthur Miller—for a walk-though of his home studio, creative process, and some of his most iconic illustrations. “What you're looking for is life in the line” he says about finding his finished product, “sometimes you'll do a drawing that doesn't look enough like Hillary and you draw it a second time the second time it looks more like her but the first time there was some magic or discovery in the actual line work and it's better drawing and that's the one you use.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illustrator and political cartoonist Barry Blitt is best known for his New Yorker covers. Over the past three decades, he’s paired his signature ink and watercolors with his dry wit. This past fall he published a beautiful coffee-table book that’s a retrospective of his most memorable work.  Blitt invited Studio 360 to meet him at his home in Connecticut—which happens to be the former home of Arthur Miller—for a walk-though of his home studio, creative process, and some of his most iconic illustrations. “What you're looking for is life in the line” he says about finding his finished product, “sometimes you'll do a drawing that doesn't look enough like Hillary and you draw it a second time the second time it looks more like her but the first time there was some magic or discovery in the actual line work and it's better drawing and that's the one you use.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When we’re distraught over the state of our country, sometimes the best we can do is laugh. Luckily we have Barry Blitt, whose satirical cartoons have lampooned American politics and culture for decades. His iconic New Yorker covers are era-defining images, earning adoration from critics and fans and piles of hate mail from everyone else. He took our stage to share pages from his latest anthology Blitt, opening his private sketchbooks to show us never-before-seen drafts and uproarious rejected illustrations, all marked up with hand-scrawled annotations and self-deprecating witticisms. Blitt is joined onstage by Comedian and Former NPR host Luke Burbank. Recognizable as a frequent guest on “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me”, “All Things Considered”, and “This American Life”, Burbank is the current host of the Portland radio variety show “Live Wire!” In a lavish, full-color evening, they unpack Blitt’s work and illuminate his creative process. Barry Blitt is a cartoonist and illustrator. Since 1992, he has contributed illustrations and more than one hundred covers to The New Yorker, including “Deluged,” voted Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006, and “The Politics of Fear,” a finalist for the same award in 2009. Blitt’s work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. Buy the book: Blitt (Elliott Bay Books) Recorded live at The Summit by Town Hall Seattle Friday, November 3, 2017 

Why is award-winning illustrator Barry Blitt so uncomfortable with the flap copy praise of his new decades-spanning compendium, Blitt (just out from Riverhead Books)? We spend an hour trying to get to the bottom of that, starting with his horror at looking back at his work (both from seeing rookie mistakes and from deciding he was better back then). We talk about how his New Yorker covers shifted from observational to topical illustrations, how he's become the de facto voice of that magazine, his Canadian roots (and how its attendant hockey fetish got him started as an illustrator), his first Mad magazine, his fear of overexposure, the difference between punching down and going for cheap laughs, and how he's made smartassery as career asset. Also, I bust his balls about his uncanny resemblance to Bob Balaban. (Photo by Angie Silverstein) • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Sep. 5, 2015. Lynn Freed, Geoffrey Kloske and Kevin Larimer discuss how book publishing has changed, and may change, in the age of digitization at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Lynn Freed is the author of six novels, a collection of stories and a collection of essays. Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, Narrative Magazine, Southwest Review, The Georgia Review and other publications. She has received the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two PEN/O. Henry Awards, various fellowships, grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation. Her works include the memoir "Reading, Writing and Leaving Home: Life on the Page," as well as the novels "The Servants' Quarters" and "The Mirror." Speaker Biography: Geoffrey Kloske is the vice president and publisher of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. He has published many books, incluiding Paula Hawkins's recent "The Girl on the Train," the New York Times best-selling novel "The Interestings" by Meg Wolitzer, Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," James McBride's National Book Award-winning "The Good Lord Bird" and the IMPAC award-winning novel by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, "The Sound of Things Falling." In 2005 Kloske wrote the award-winning children's book "Once Upon a Time, the End," illustrated by Barry Blitt. He has also previously worked as an editor at Simon & Schuster and Little, Brown and Co. Speaker Biography: Kevin Larimer is the editor in chief of Poets & Writers, where he edits Poets & Writers Magazine; oversees the organization's website, pw.org; directs Poets & Writers Live; and co-hosts Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the poetry editor of the Iowa Review. Larimer has presented lectures on publishing at the Academy of American Poets' annual Poets Forum, The Writer's Hotel Master Class and the International Poetry Conference in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, and he he has served on a number of panels on publishing at events such as the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, the Slice Literary Writer's Conference and Poets Forum. His poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Verse and a dozen other literary magazines. Larimer has also written book reviews for American Letters & Commentary, American Book Review, Chelsea and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6927