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O C T O B E R15WEDNESDAY7 PMEvery Picture Tells A Story:New Yorker Artists in ConversationCreating cartoons and illustrations for The New Yorker is the brass ring for artists. But keepingthe hallowed 85-year-old publication up to date with topical cartoons and cover paintings is achallenge. How do these A-list illustrators do it? How did they break into the magazine?And what are the secret stories behind these miniature works of art? Drinks and snacksprovided. Doors open at 6:30 pm, nobody can be admitted after 7:15 pm.Airbnb888 Brannan St.FREE / reservations requiredAll Ages ♿Eric Drooker is a painter and graphic novelist,and award-winning author of Flood! A Novel inPictures and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. Formany years he was a street artist, well knownfor his provocative posters plastered on citylampposts and walls. He collaborated withAllen Ginsberg on Illuminated Poems, anddesigned the animation for the movie Howl.A Chicagoland native, Matt Silady(moderator) is author of the Eisner-nominatedgraphic novel The Homeless Channel, andchair of the MFA in Comics Program atCalifornia College of the Arts.Owen Smith has created illustrations for TheNew Yorker (18 covers), Sports Illustrated,Time, Rolling Stone, New York Times and LosAngeles Times. One of his New Yorker coverswon the 2007 Cover of the Year from theAmerican Society of Magazine Editors. He isfeatured in various books about illustration andfine art, including Illustration: A Visual Historyand Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits.Tom Toro is a cartoonist for The New Yorkerand a writer of fiction, children’s picturebooks, and screenplays. He was comics editorfor the Yale Herald. After graduating cumlaude, he went to NYU Film School and wascinematographer on projects that premieredat Sundance, Tribeca and Cannes.Mark Ulriksen lives in San Francisco andhas been a regular contributor of cover art(45 to date) and article illustrations for TheNew Yorker since 1993. He recently wrotehis first book, combining his observationsand paintings on a favorite subject, entitledDogs Rule, Nonchalantly.52