Ink Spill’s Chicago correspondent, Ken Krimstein reports that Gahan Wilson received an honorary doctorate this past weekend from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. That’s Gahan to the right in the above photo, with co-honoree, Eric Fischl. Ken filed this report : Interestingly, not only did Gahan graduate from there, so did his mother. He was fabulous
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Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Returns; TCJ posts Sendak Tributes; Liza Donnelly’s Mother’s Day Forbes column
Peter Steiner’s blog, Hopeless But Not Serious is back! See it here. Over at The Comics Journal the tributes to Maurice Sendak are pouring in. Sendak, who passed away this past Tuesday at age 83, contributed one cover to The New Yorker, and in the same issue (September 27, 1993) contributed a two page spread, In The Dumps, co-written/drawn
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From The New York Review of Magazines, this piece celebrating Edward Koren’s 50th year of contributing to The New Yorker
Read moreAndrzej Czeczot: 1933 -2012; Blown Covers, live
The News (news from Poland), May 9, 2012, “Satirical cartoonist Andrzej Czeczot dies” (Czeczot’s “Manhattan” a four page spread of drawings, appeared in The New Yorker, June 9, 1986). From The Gothamist, May 9, 2012, “More Rejected New Yorker Covers Revealed, Explained”
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