Erika Sjule Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Erika Sjule (shown above, lower left) who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2022, joins CCCP co-hosts, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Nicole Chrolavicius. Listen here (it’s episode #146, for those keeping track).
Visit Erika Sjule’s website here.
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A Quartet Of R.Taylor Illustrated Books
Thanks to a generous donor, here are four R.Taylor illustrated books. Mr. Taylor certainly ranks up there with Otto Soglow as one the most popular New Yorker cartoonists with a sideline as a book illustrator. The Spill library has a scattershot collection of New Yorker cartoonist illustrated books — to “collect ’em all” would be a full time pursuit.
Half A Dollar Is Better Than None (Doubleday, 1953)
Butchered Baseball (A.S. Barnes & Co., 1952)
The Little Black Book: A Manual For Bachelors (Doubleday, 1957)
Fractured French (Doubleday, 1950)
Richard Taylor’s A-Z Entry:
Richard Taylor (self portrait from Meet the Artist; photo below from an Introduction To Cartooning) Born in Fort William, Ontario, Sept. 18, 1902. Died in 1970. NYer work: 1935 -1967. Collections: The Better Taylors ( Random House, 1944, and a reprint edition by World Publishing, 1945), Richard Taylor’s Wrong Bag (Simon & Schuster, 1961). Taylor also authored Introduction to Cartooning (Watson -Guptill, 1947). From Taylor’s introduction: the “book is not intended to be a ‘course in cartooning’…instead, it attempts to outline a plan of study — something to be kept at the elbow to steer by.”