About Ink Spill

When this site was launched its focus was on my work, especially my work at The New Yorker. In a matter of days after the launch I decided to create an offshoot called Ink Spill. Its focus is on all New Yorker cartoonists and their work. Ink Spill not only lists news and events, it also spotlights New Yorker cartoonist-related material from the past and, if possible,  offers links to that material. In time, some of this website's sections will expand to incorporate more New Yorker information ( The New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z, and Posted Notes are the first of these). Eventually the Library will contain scans of collections by New Yorker cartoonists ( presently it contains only scans of my books). The Links section is constantly being updated to include New Yorker cartoonists' websites and/or blogs links.

Cartoon Marriage

A collection of work by Liza Donnelly and myself, with a cover illustration inspired by George Herriman.  The book  includes previously unpublished cartoons and features an autobiographical graphic narrative.  Published by Random House, January 2009.

Mad At Something – The Life & Times of The New Yorker’s Peter Arno

I began this biography of Arno in 1999,  and it is just now nearing completion. In 2005 while I was interviewing Jud Hurd, the editor and founder of Cartoonist PROfiles, he asked me to  write about my experience of  taking on Arno’s biography (he asked me to write a little something about my experience as a cartoonist as well). The piece ran in the December 2004 issue of Cartoonist PROfiles -- you can read it by clicking here

There  ( …At The New Yorker )

A memoir recalling the path taken by this cartoonist on the way to a career at The New Yorker as well as the people and events encountered at the magazine throughout the  past three decades.  The memoir may eventually run in installments on this site.