Playboy Will End Its Print Edition From WWD, March 18, 2020, “Playboy Magazine Ceases Print Edition After 66 Years” The magazine’s Spring 2020 issue will be its last print edition. An online edition will continue (the magazine says “special” issues may appear next year). For many years, in the latter part of the Golden Age of Cartoons, as magazines that
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Blog Posts Of Interest From Mike Lynch; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (…and Yesterday’s); Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Blog Posts Of Interest From Mike Lynch Cartoonist Mike Lynch has posted two back-to-back New Yorker items of interest on his blog. Today’s is a look at some of Steinberg’s drawings from All In Line (the 1947 paperback edition), and yesterday a piece on a film about New Yorker cover artist Andre Francois. See them here. Steinberg’s entry on
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of March 23, 2020: No GOAT
The Cover: This week’s cover, by Christoph Niemann is right on the money. The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise Mouly, has a Q&A with the artist here. Historical Note: this is the first issue of The New Yorker not to include a Goings On About Town section. A notice appears on this week’s Table of Contents. A potted history of
Read moreWho Are These New Yorker Cartoonists?
Cartoon Sleuths! Who Are These New Yorker Cartoonists? The Spill has been around over a decade, and in that time I’ve spent many happy hours searching for information about the large number of New Yorker cartoonists who have zero biographical content on this site’s A-Z. In an effort to fill in some of the empty biographies, I’m reaching out to
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