Hi there!

Just wanted to let you know that I am one of the featured cartoonists in the upcoming documentary, “Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists,” that will screen around the country this fall as a run-up to its HBO broadcast on December 7th.

Here are the upcoming dates and venues that are known, and if you can’t find a theater near you, let me know.

• October 2 – Preview Screening at The New Yorker Festival, New York City, followed by a Q&A panel, with Roz Chast, Bob Mankoff, Emily Flake, Liana Finck and Mort Gerberg
• (http://festival.newyorker.com/events/very-semi-serious-a-partially-thorough-portrait-of-new-yorker-cartoonists)

– MASS MoCA  (near Williamstown, MA) Friday, October 16th

– Also in the Berkshires, (Chatham, NY) late October

– Theatre: Laemmle Monica 4. at 1332 2nd St, Santa Monica, CA

   Los Angeles, November 20-December 3

– Theatre: Lincoln Plaza, 1886 Broadway, New York, NY, November 20-December 3

– Theatre: The Roxie, in San Francisco, beginning November 20

– Theatre:  The Bill Cosford Cinema, Miami, November 23rd

Chicago, at the Chicago International Film Festival; no dates/times set yet. Vancouver (late October) Port Townsend, Oregon (late September) Port Jefferson, Long Island (late September)

Screenings are also coming up this fall in San Diego, Nashville, Halifax, and some others.

Hope you get to see it, and, if you can, let me know your reactions!

Here are a few photos from the Tribeca Film Festival last Sunday, where the documentary “Very Semi-Serious,” in which I am one of the featured cartoonists, premiered, with a bit of bezazz ….well-deserved by all.Here I am at the bar, with cartoonists Felipe Galindo and Liam Walsh and his wife.Prior to the screening, all the New Yorker cartoonists attending, all of whom appeared in the film, even if only for a second, were gathered on the red carpet for this Very Semi-Serious moment.  I’m in the middle row, fourth from the left, next to Sam Gross, and if you want identification of any of the others, drop me a note.At the bar there was a vintage telephone , from perhaps 1939, and I couldn’t resist trying to make a call back to those “good old” days, when The New Yorker cartoons were just becoming the must-see feature of the magazine.  “Very Semi-Serious” makes references to those early days as well as to the changes that have been made since.  Keep your eye out for the film; we’re all hoping it will get into commercial distribution….and it’s definitely worth seeing.

Attached here is a New York Times piece about the documentary, as well as some photos, on and off the red carpet, and at the party afterwards.  Lots of fun and great acknowledgment of cartoonists!

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 20th, 2015

“Tribeca Film Festival: Leah Wolchok on Her Film About New Yorker Cartoonists, ‘Very Semi-Serious’, By Mekado Murphy

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/tribeca-film-festival-leah-wolchok-on-her-film-about-new-yorker-cartoonists-very-semi-serious/?_r=0

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