From Publishers Weekly, November 16, 2012, “Picture Books for Adults: PW Talks to Victoria Roberts” — this interview with Roberts about her new book, After the Fall (Norton, 2012).
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Twinkies Redux
Today’s news that the Hostess Brands company is closing down reminded me of an Ink Spill post from mid-January of this year, when the company filed for bankruptcy. Back then I posted this New Yorker cartoon of mine from the issue of September 5, 1983, and wrote: For the record: I love Twinkies. Should they disappear, we will all
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoons of the Year 2012 & Index
Out now is The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year 2012. This issue, or bookazine as it’s called in the Introduction, is 144 pages, with over 250 cartoons. It will remain on sale until February 18, 2013. This is the third year the bookazine has appeared. Previous to 2010, The New Yorker produced the Cartoon Yearbook ( a hardcover
Read moreCartoon Auction includes work by Charles Addams, Geoge Booth, and William Steig
From the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, “Art auction in Rhinecliff Saturday” this news of a benefit auction of cartoons, including work by New Yorker artists Charles Addams, George Booth, William Steig, Frank Modell, James Stevenson, Peter Steiner, Lee Lorenz, Harry Bliss, Barbara Smaller, Charles Barsotti, Joe Dator, Gahan Wilson, Robert Mankoff, Liza Donnelly, P.C. Vey, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan, Carolita
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