Word of a new blog by an 18 year veteran of the gag writing profession has caused me to ruminate on the long and winding road traveled by cartoonists and gag writers at The New Yorker. When I began contributing drawings (cartoons) to the magazine back in the late 1970s one of the unexpected and unsolicited consequences was the regular
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Collaborating Cartoonists; Video: Charles Addams
Collaborating cartoonists have been on my mind recently. Who are they, why do they do it? Does it double the fun? A spate of collaborations in The New Yorker within the past year caused me to dig into the subject and ask a few questions. To begin with, here’re a few words on the subject, written sixty years
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Weekend Spill: Latest Additions To The Spill Library; The Week Of November 18-22, 2024
Latest Additions To The Spill Library: Two volumes of bound New Yorkers recently arrived here. I’m slowly filling in the early 1970s bound issues (there are plenty of loose issues in the library). This time period is especially of interest to me because these were the issues I studied, as a high school student, as they arrived in the
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Tuesday Spill: Book Of Interest…A New Biography of Katharine S. White
Book Of Interest…A New Biography Of Katharine S. White Linda Davis’s Onward And Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White, published in 1987, has been one of my major go-to New Yorker biographies since its publication in 1987. It’ll be interesting to compare Amy Reading’s The World She Edited (HarperCollins). Ms. White relationship to The New Yorker‘s cartoons began early in
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