Mick Stevens And Paul Karasik Think In Ink This Monday
New Yorker cartoonist cohorts Paul Karasik (left) and Mick Stevens will be in conversation this coming Monday on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. All the information here.
As previously mentioned on the Spill, there is currently an exhibit on the island of Mr. Stevens cartoons.
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American Bystander’s Michael Gerber Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Michael Gerber, the driving force behind the wonderful American Bystander joins that fun CCCP crew on the latest episode. Above, from top left, clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Mr. Gerber, and Vin Coca. Listen here.
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Cartoon-epathy?
Ending the week with an oddity. This kind of thing has happened to me perhaps three times before over the years. I believe I wrote about the last one on the Spill (but I can’t remember how to locate it).
We’ll start with this drawing of mine shown here:
Like most cartoonists I spend a lot of time just messin’ around drawing every day; drawing whatever pops into my thoughts. Sometimes these drawings turn into cartoons submitted to The New Yorker, other times they go nowhere. Most of them go nowhere, but it sure is fun seeing them develop out of thin air.
The two fellows you see here are on a 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of paper filled with other drawings (I’ve edited out the rest of the page so we can focus on these two).
When I drew these guys yesterday morning, I thought, hmmm., these fellows will go nowhere (as in, I cannot see this becoming a realized drawing), but I liked how they looked — what was going on there was a bit curious to me. And that was that; I moved on, and continued to draw other things.
Hours after I’d done the drawing above, the mail arrived, and in the mail was a 1957 Everett Opie cartoon book, Ravioli Every Morning. About a week ago I found a copy online, and was looking forward to both seeing it for the first time, and adding it to the Spill library. The material would be new to me as it had appeared in Stars And Stripes.
I sat down with the book, and began flipping through, when I came to this drawing (the second part of a two-parter):
Here’s mine, done the morning of Aug 17, side-by-side with Everett Opie’s from the 1950s:
Happy weekend!
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Here’s Mr. Opie’s full two-part cartoon that appears in the book:
And here’s his A-Z entry (sorry, no photo…yet):
Everett Opie Born, Chicago, Ill. 1930. Died, New York, NY, June 11, 2004. Collections: Ravioli Every Morning (Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1957); Dress Up That Line!: In and Out of Step with Opie (Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1959).
New Yorker work: July 26, 1952 – October 24, 1988 (366 drawings).