Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg From Baruch College’s The Ticker, February 19, 2022, “Celebrating Ticker Alumni: Mort Gerberg” A good catching-up piece about Mr. Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965. He was the subject on an Ink Spill interview last year. — above: Mort Gerberg, on the left, with George Booth. ___________________________________________________________________ Video
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Sam Gross On His Friend, Bill Woodman — Above on the left, Sam Gross; Bill Woodman on the right. The Spill asked a few long-time New Yorker artists to say a few words about their colleague, Bill Woodman, who passed away last Saturday. Here’s what Sam Gross had to say: “Bill and I wrote and drew gags together for
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Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
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Closing in on the end of a seemingly long double-issue two weeks — a new issue will come out next Monday — I thought it would be fun to try out a new addition to the Spill: First & Last. It’s been an interest of mine, when thinking about certain New Yorker artists, to automatically look into what their first
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