Long time New Yorker cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, now has a website (currently in progress)…go visit! The New York Times “6th Floor” has reported on its victory over The New Yorker this past week (“There’s No Crying in Media-League Softball,” June 28, 2012). Ink Spill asked The New Yorker’s softball co-coach (and cartoonist) Drew “Woodcut” Dernavich for his thoughts on
Read moreMonth: June 2012
Steinberg & Hitchcock
New Yorker cartoonist Liam Walsh brought this intersection of Steinberg and Alfred Hitchcock to my attention. From Hitchcock’s 1955 film, The Trouble with Harry, the opening credits. Ink Spill visitors might remember that Liam also alerted this site to another Hitchcock/New Yorker connection. In Hitchcock’s 1944 film, Lifeboat, Eustace Tilley has a cameo at the 2:04 mark (sorry, you’ll have
Read moreCelebrating Syd Hoff’s Centennial
From Tablet, June 21, 2012, “Syd Hoff’s Cartoon Life” — this graphic tribute to the late great Syd Hoff, who contributed cartoons to The New Yorker for forty years ( 1931 – 1975). Mr. Hoff died May 12, 2004 in Miami Beach.
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists Exhibit Way Out West
This promises to be an interesting exhibit (see the poster for all the pertinent information). According to the show’s promotional material: “Rejected works handpicked by each artist will be shown alongside originals that ran in the magazine.” Keeping my fingers crossed that this exhibit makes its way east. The poster above features a Bob Eckstein drawing. Also circulating online
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