Fave Book Cover (and Book) of the Week: Buzzi & Steinberg Liza Donnelly recently traveled to the west coast of Italy where she was presented with an award from the Museo della Satira d della Caricatura. She returned home with a box of cartoon books published over there. Among them was the book above, Aldo Buzzi & Saul Steinberg: Un’ Amicizia
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Fave Book Find of the Week: Frueh On The Theatre: 1906 – 1962; Sam Marlow Pencilled; New Yorker Cartoonists in Life & Judge; Signed By The Cartoonist; Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker!
Here’s a wonderful collection of the late great Al Frueh’s theater work for The New Yorker and elsewhere. The New York Times had Al Hirschfeld, The New Yorker had Al Frueh. Mr. Frueh’s New Yorker colleague, Brendan Gill provides an informative and insightful intro. For more on Mr. Frueh, here’s a Spill piece about him, “The First New Yorker Cartoon”
Read moreLists! New Yorker Cartoon Collections & Artists; Latest New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue
It will come as no surprise to Ink Spill visitors that I enjoy lists. “The New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z” on this site being one example — the Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists Library” being another. I’ve been a fan of Chris Wheeler’s great website for years (he has been a generous contributor to the Spill’s archive). Here are two links for
Read moreTwo Blog Posts of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind & Attempted Bloggery
Two favorite New Yorker-related blogs making for fun Saturday reading. First, A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker with its look at the issue of June 30, 1928 featuring the ever pleasing work of Helen Hokinson on the cover. Work shown in the post: Alice Harvey, Al Frueh, and Peter Arno. And then there’s
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