A few days ago I took a look at Charles Addams’s original cover for Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker (Random House, 1975). Today I’m adding the 1990 edition of that book
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From Ink Spill’s Archives: An Early Cartoon Bank Brochure
As we rapidly approach the end of Bob Mankoff’s tenure as the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Ink Spill takes a quick look back to the mid 1990s (before Mr. Mankoff was appointed by Tina Brown to that position) when he founded something called the Cartoon Bank. The CB (as it came to be called in the cartoon community) was eventually
Read moreEvent of Interest: Blitt, Galindo, Taylor, Telnaes, & Donnelly at The Museum of The City of New York
Cartooning The New Reality is the topic. Barry Blitt, Felipe Galindo, Whit Taylor, Ann Telnaes are on a panel moderated by Liza Donnelly. The date is March 23rd. All the info here. The Museum has provided a discount code DRAW which allows people to buy $10 tickets (regularly $20). Go to this link and you’ll receive a discount on the entrance
Read moreAn Edward Koren Exhibit & Talk; New Yorker’s Latest Cartoons, Rated On A Scale of 1 to 6; The Tilley Watch: Fact-Checking At The New Yorker
An exhibit of original art by one of The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Gods, Edward Koren, will open Saturday March 18 at Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. BMAC’S Website here. From the press release: Quirky creatures will…inhabit the exhibit SERIOUSLY FUNNY in the museum’s East Gallery. The exhibit consists of 16 original drawings and prints by longtime New Yorker cartoonist
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