Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast With Guest Navied Mahdavian
This weeks Cartoon Caption Contest Pod guest is Navied Mahdavian, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Above, clockwise, beginning top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler and Paul Nesja, Mr. Mahdavian, and co-host Vin Coca.
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Latest Cartoon Pad Pod Posted
Following a semi-brief hiatus, New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw have posted a brand new pod. They discuss all sorts of things, cartoon-biz-related, and, in true pod fashion, some things not-so-cartoon-biz-related.
Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007.
Michael Shaw began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999.
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Latest Addition To The Ink Spill Cartoon Collection
A very good friend has generously gifted the Spill the above original Gluyas Williams drawing from Williams’s daily strip “Suburban Heights”. As a newcomer to the world of cartoon strips (knowing their history that is, not reading them) I’ve a lot to learn about Mr. Williams’s strip work.
From the site WHO2 Biographies I did find this bit of information specific to the “Suburban Heights” and the above mentioned Mr. Perley:
In 1922 he [Gluyas Williams] began producing Suburban Heights, a syndicated feature that helped pioneer the single-panel-with-caption format that is now a newspaper staple. The feature introduced his signature character, a round-faced and mildly befuddled suburbanite known as Fred Perley.
More examples of Williams’s strip work — the dailies — can be found on the Gluyas Williams website here.
A wider perspective of Williams’s work here from R. C. Harvey via The Comics Journal
This addition to the Spill has doubled the number of Williams’s drawings in the collection. The other is an illustration that appeared on the cover of Inside Benchley, shown below. Also below: The Gluyas Williams A-Z entry.
Gluyas Williams (above left undated; right: 1975) Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. NYer work: March 13, 1926 – Aug 25, 1951. Key collections: The Gluyas Williams Book ( Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929), The Gluyas Williams Gallery (Harper, 1956).