Cover Revealed: From the fab cartoonist, Joe Dator, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006, a cartoon collection (and more) from Turner, due out this November. From the publisher: Inked is more than a book of cartoons. Dator also dives into the creative process, offering bonus commentary on how ideas have come to fruition, how one idea has
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Thurber Thursday: A Thurber Self-Portrait in a 1943 Catalog; Graphic Piece Of Interest: Bishakh Som; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Article Of Interest…Peter Porges & Co. Exhibit, “Three With A Pen”
From a great little catalog for a 1943 exhibit, “Meet The Artist,” at San Francisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, here’s a Thurber self portrait and bio, with the intriguing first sentence: “My life story is simple.” The exhibit also included the following New Yorker artists: Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Alan Dunn, William Gropper, Rea Irvin, Roberta Macdonald,
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Wednesday Spill: The First New Yorker Album…And Then There Were Three
One of the most recent additions to the Spill archives is a dust-jacketed copy of the very first collection of New Yorker cartoons (or drawings, if you’re feeling traditional): The New Yorker Album, published by Doubleday Doran in 1928. This is the third dust-jacketed copy to be added to the collection (I believe there’s another copy around here sans dust
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Tuesday Spill: Podcast Of Interest… “Combining Digital Visual Journalism And Activism With Cartoonist Liza Donnelly”; Where Are Dorothy Parker’s Thurber Drawings?”
Podcast Of Interest: Liza Donnelly From Drawing Inspiration, April 5, 2021, this hour plus podcast featuring Ms. Donnelly. Here’s Donnelly’s Spill A-Z entry: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus, 2005). Edited: Sex & Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy
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