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.
