Upcoming Exhibit Includes Work By Peter Porges
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York has announced an exhibit, “Three With A Pen: Lily Renee, Bil Spera, and Paul Peter Porges” March 11, 2021 – September 23, 2021.
You can watch a “teaser” for the exhibit here (the screenshot above taken from the clip).
Mr. Porges’s A-Z Spill entry:
Peter Porges (photo courtesy of Felipe Galindo) Born, Vienna, Austria, 1926. Died, December 2016. New Yorker work: July 3, 1965 – . Mr. Porges was a long time contributor to Mad magazine.
Read the Ink Spill Appreciation here.
Thanks to my colleague Peter Steiner for passing along the news of this exhibit.
Note: You can find an expanded notice of the exhibit on Mike Lynch’s blog.
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A New Podcast From Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw
Upcoming from Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, the duo who brought you The Elements Of Stress, is The Cartoon Pad, a bi-weekly podcast featuring fellow cartoonists (Victoria Roberts and The Surreal McCoy are listed as among the first guests).
Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Michael Shaw in 1999.
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From Dick Buchanan’s Files: New Yorker Cartoonists Published Elsewhere
From Dick Buchanan’s Files via Mike Lynch’s blog, “New Yorker Luminaries 1937 – 1964″
Mr. Buchanan gives us a platter of work by New Yorker artists that appeared in other publications.
Left: From Collier’s, June 24, 1955, this gem by Ned Hilton. Here’s his Spill A-Z entry:
Ned Hilton Born 1904, Alhambra, California. Died, NYC, August, 1967. According to his obit in the NYTs (Aug 18, 1967) Hilton was a cartoonist since age 14 when the San Francisco Chronicle began running his work. Besides The New Yorker, Hilton’s work appeared in Esquire, Life, Collier’s, and Look magazines. New Yorker work: May 19, 1934 — June 15, 1957