#NY TIMES CROSSWORD EDITOR MARGARET FULL#

THE BEAT: Which came first…the puzzles or the comic? How did you get into making crossword puzzles? And how did you get into comics? Gold’s work exists on many levels…and Letters to Margaret is a daring experiment in multiple forms that will keep you thinking and puzzling for hours.Īfter Gold sent me a link to the book, I sent her some questions and she answered via email and the resulting interview is pretty amazing in its own right. Think of her as Will Eisner with a grid.) Current New Yorker puzzle editor Andy Kravis designed the puzzles in the first half of the book. (The Margaret of the title is Margaret Farrar, the legendary crossword puzzle editor for the New York Times.

#NY TIMES CROSSWORD EDITOR MARGARET FULL#

Gold is an SVA grad but also obsessed with puzzles and puzzle making – she once did a webcomic about crossword puzzles, Across and Down – and well traveled in the puzzle-making world…which seems to be just as close knit and full of controversy as comics can sometimes be. This graphic novel showcases the power of words and the fun of wordplay through imagery, text, and the puzzles themselves - all the major art forms! The same series of events is twice-told, from two different characters’ perspectives, and both halves pack a different set of solvable crosswords. To do this, the two sides are presented in a book that’s literally divided in half. Hayley’s protagonists, like all of us, are stuck in their black and white thinking, but Letters to Margaret shows them, and us, how the other side sees things. If you think the world of crosswords is black and white, you’d be… mostly right.

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