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Actually, this was post-Esquire circa1996 to 2000. He was one of my gateways to New Yorker cartooning...an addiction I have yet to kick.
I would hand the flannel mantle to L.L.Bean, but no one could lay a finger on our button-down Oxfords.
I assumed Hardboiled Dicks was a spoof, being a noir fan, most of Dashell Hammett reads like a spoof.
Love your cartoons. I was at Esquire during the Hayes years. Nora Ephron, Tom Wolfe etc. Best time. Long before you. I wrote a whole bunch of spoofs during the Preppy Handbook days, the only difference being that mine flopped. Two mystery spoofs, a romance novel spoof and a Hollywood spoof. I tried for 25 years to get into the New Yorker—Shouts & Murmurs. Dan Menaker would send pieces to me; I’d send him mine. No luck either way. Good old days.
By the way, I posted a review on Amazon. Guess it hasn’t been approved yet. Loved the book. Didn’t realize you were that Michael Shaw at first. Common name. I’ll post it on Goodreads.
I saw your review. There's not a lot anymore that's "long before me." I've always been a bit of throw-back. That was very kind! I'd like to return the favor. (Is that considered a conflict of interest?) My taste in cartooning has progressed much beyond Thurber and my humor remains resolutely Benchleyesque.
You're welcome. My humor remains resolutely Marxist. Karl, not Groucho. I love when he suggested to Engels that they put a few cartoons in Das Kapital to liven it up. Engels said no of course but later used the line in his stand-up act.
As for returning the favor---thanks but I don't know what that might be. I'm convinced that stars, reviews and awards don't mean what they used to back in the day. Amazon has 48,000,000 books that will forever remain on its cyber shelves. No turnover. How does anybody compete with that?
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Actually, this was post-Esquire circa1996 to 2000. He was one of my gateways to New Yorker cartooning...an addiction I have yet to kick.
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I would hand the flannel mantle to L.L.Bean, but no one could lay a finger on our button-down Oxfords.
I assumed Hardboiled Dicks was a spoof, being a noir fan, most of Dashell Hammett reads like a spoof.
Love your cartoons. I was at Esquire during the Hayes years. Nora Ephron, Tom Wolfe etc. Best time. Long before you. I wrote a whole bunch of spoofs during the Preppy Handbook days, the only difference being that mine flopped. Two mystery spoofs, a romance novel spoof and a Hollywood spoof. I tried for 25 years to get into the New Yorker—Shouts & Murmurs. Dan Menaker would send pieces to me; I’d send him mine. No luck either way. Good old days.
By the way, I posted a review on Amazon. Guess it hasn’t been approved yet. Loved the book. Didn’t realize you were that Michael Shaw at first. Common name. I’ll post it on Goodreads.
I saw your review. There's not a lot anymore that's "long before me." I've always been a bit of throw-back. That was very kind! I'd like to return the favor. (Is that considered a conflict of interest?) My taste in cartooning has progressed much beyond Thurber and my humor remains resolutely Benchleyesque.
You're welcome. My humor remains resolutely Marxist. Karl, not Groucho. I love when he suggested to Engels that they put a few cartoons in Das Kapital to liven it up. Engels said no of course but later used the line in his stand-up act. As for returning the favor---thanks but I don't know what that might be. I'm convinced that stars, reviews and awards don't mean what they used to back in the day. Amazon has 48,000,000 books that will forever remain on its cyber shelves. No turnover. How does anybody compete with that?
