Note: After my colleague Michael Shaw posted the following piece on Face Book this afternoon, I asked if he’d share it with Ink Spill. Accompanying the piece is Michael’s illustration, an homage to James Thurber’s drawing, “Touche!” originally published in The New Yorker, December 3, 1932. Call me Thurberesque. Why? Because it’s a nice way of saying I
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Q and A with Farley Katz; Review: Soglow’s Cartoon Monarch
From The National Post, May 4, 2012, “Toronto Comic Arts Festival Questionnaire: Farley Katz” From The Washington Post, this review: “Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King”
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From the Library Journal, their Fall preview lists a third book of observations on art by John Updike, Always Looking: Essays on Art (Knopf). His first two: Just Looking (Knopf, 1989), and Still Looking (Knopf, 2005). Also from The Library Journal, a listing for Saul Steinberg: A Biography (Nan A. Talese: Doubleday) by Deirdre Bair. This should be
Read moreBrief Q & A with Bob Mankoff; Working for The Man @ MoCCA; More Blown Covers
From Creative Week New York, “Creative Week Session Spotlight: A Session with Bob Mankoff of The New Yorker” Link here for more info on Mr. Mankoff’s appearance. From The Beat, May 1, 2012, “Working for The Man: MoCCa 2012” ( with Shannon Wheeler and Liza Donnelly content). From NPR’s All Things Considered, May 1, 2012, audio: “‘Blown Covers’:
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