Leading Cartoonists from The New Yorker will join
Queen Mary 2 in 2018
VALENCIA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury cruise
line Cunard and venerable magazine The New
Yorker have partnered to offer guests an exciting opportunity
to explore the world of cartoons while aboard the flagship ocean
liner Queen Mary 2.
During select 2018 Transatlantic Crossings from June to
November, celebrated cartoonists of the acclaimed magazine will
host exclusive drawing sessions, workshops, hands-on demonstrations
and caption contests for passengers. The New Yorker, known
for its single-panel cartoons, has offered a signature mix of news,
culture, and the arts since its founding in 1925.
"We are excited to partner with the creative cartoonist team at
the New Yorker to entertain our guests on board Cunard's
Queen Mary 2," said Josh Leibowitz, senior vice president,
Cunard North America. "Our goal at
Cunard is to offer extraordinary experiences to our guests, and we
look forward to welcoming The New Yorker team onto these four
Queen Mary 2 voyages."
More about the on-board experts who will be joining these
voyages:
- Emily Flake will be part
of the July 20, 2018 (M827) voyage.
Flake has been cartooning for The New Yorker since 2008 and is also
the author of Mama Tried: Dispatches from the Seamy Underbelly of
Modern Parenting.
- Matt Diffee is set to
join the June 10 (M821) and
November 11, 2018 (M843) Crossings.
Author of Hand Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People and
the editor of three volumes of The Rejection Collection:
Cartoons You Never Saw and Never Will See in The New Yorker,
Diffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker
since 1999. His work has also appeared in Time, The
Huffington Post, The Believer and Texas Monthly.
Diffee received the Silver Reuben Award for best single-panel
cartoonist of the year and he was recently named Chairman of the
Los Angeles Chapter of the National Cartoonists
Society.
- David Sipress will join
the transatlantic voyage departing August
26, 2018 (M832). Sipress' work has appeared in the Boston
Phoenix, Time,
Parade, Playboy, Funny Times, The
Washington Post, Harper's, Gastronomica, and
Shambhala Sun. Sipress also lectures on the art of the
cartoon and has published eight collections of his work. In 2016,
Sipress was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award
for Gag Cartooning.
- Ben Schwartz will be
joining the October 7, 2018 Crossing
(M838A). Schwartz has been a contributing cartoonist for The New
Yorker since 2012. A man of many trades, Schwartz also works as
an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia
University Medical Center, where he uses art to help educate
future physicians on how to provide compassionate and
patient-centric care.
For more information about Cunard, or to book a
voyage, contact your Travel Consultant, call Cunard Line at
1-800-728-6273 or visit www.cunard.com.
For travel agents interested in further information, please
contact your Business Development Manager, visit OneSource or call
Cunard toll free at 1-800-528-6273.
Cunard
Cunard is the operator of luxury cruise ships
Queen Mary 2®,
Queen Victoria® and
Queen Elizabeth®.
Renowned for impeccable White Star Service, gourmet dining and
world-class entertainment, all three Queens offer luxury
accommodations in Britannia, Britannia Club, Princess Grill Suite and Queens Grill Suite
staterooms. Cunard is the only line to offer regularly scheduled
Transatlantic service between New
York and London, and it
continues to celebrate the freedom of travel on exciting World
Voyage and Grand Voyage itineraries that visit Europe, North
America, South America,
Africa, Asia and Australia.
Awarded '#1 Mega-Ship Ocean Cruise
Line' by Travel + Leisure's 2017 and 2016 World's Best
Awards and 'Best World Cruise Itineraries' and 'Best Trans-Atlantic
Itineraries' by Porthole Cruise Magazine's 2016 Readers Choice
Awards, Cunard is a proud member of World's Leading Cruise Lines, a
part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK),
the largest cruise vacation company in the world. Together Cunard,
Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises,
Seabourn, AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, P&O Cruises
(Australia) and P&O Cruises
(UK) operate 102 ships visiting over 700 ports around the world and
totaling 226,000 lower berths.
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