Fave Photo Of The Week 1
Here’s Liza Donnelly in a sea of New Yorker original art for The New Yorker centennial exhibit she’s curating for The Society of Illustrators (the exhibit will open in 2025…more details to come when available).
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Happy Birthday, Edward Frascino!
The Spill wishes Mr. Frascino, at 94, The New Yorker‘s eldest active contributing artist, a very very happy birthday.
Read the 2020 Edward Frascino Ink Spill interview here.
His A-Z Entry:
Edward Frascino Born, Bronx, NY. (“near the zoo”). New Yorker work: 1965 – . Collection: Avocado Is Not Your Color and Other Scenes of Married Bliss ( Penguin Books, 1983).
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Radio Interview Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan
Bruce Eric Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991 recently appeared on WAMC’s popular “Roundtable” with Joe Donahue to discuss his new book, They Went Another Way. Listen here.
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Fave Photo Of The Week 2
Jason Chatfield, in the red sweater center, posted this photo (and others) on his Substack the other day. He, and fellow New Yorker cartoonists Hilary Campbell (left, seated) and Sofia Warren (right, standing) attended and drew portraits at a recent Substack event in NYC.
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And Speaking Of Photos and Cartoonists and Events…
Come one, come all to the At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker book launch next Thursday, November 21, 2024, 6-8 pm at Rizzoli, 1133 Broadway, NYC.
It’s a free event; registration is suggested (but, I don’t believe, required). The photographer Alen MacWeeney and I will be in conversation. The photographer, Charles Traub will moderate.
A number of the cartoonists in the book will be present. What fun!
Here’s a sample of the book featuring the fab Joe Dator (Mr. Dator announced on social media he’ll be present at the event):
