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« Hotel Theory | Main | An echo in Akron » Thursday, August 9, 2007A tree falls in BrooklynYou've already heard, of course, about the tornado that tore through Brooklyn yesterday. Plus the flooding. The brilliant cartoonist and obsessive cultural archaeologist Mark Newgarden -- who was profiled in Ideas in January 2006 -- lives in a converted funeral parlor in Williamsburg. Is he OK? we wondered. Was his huge collection of pop cultural ephemera damaged? Yes, but also, alas, yes. "Our basement was flooded worse than usual," Newgarden reports via email. "Still mopping up the mess here and mourning the watery loss of my childhood Mad magazine collection... How do I go on?" Sad news! But Newgarden, whose latest endeavor is a charming series of children's books, coauthored with Megan Montague Cash, about a dogged dog named Bow-Wow, ended on an upbeat note: "PS -- The Famous Monsters are ok -- they were in plastic bags." Phew! Posted by Joshua Glenn at 01:13 PM
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