Latest ToonStack Posted It’s ToonStack time. The latest installment has been posted. ToonStack is a themed group effort by mostly New Yorker cartoonists. This week’s contributors include Hilary Campbell, Jason Chatfield, Ellis Rosen, Emily Flake, Johnny diNapoli, Kendra Allenby, and J.A.K.. __________________________________________________________________ Mort Gerberg’s “Cartoon Pad” Conversation With Michael Shaw & Bob Eckstein Now Posted: a brand new episode of
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It Was 59 Years Ago… Edward Koren made his New Yorker debut in the issue of May 26, 1962 with the above fellow at his typewriter. He is our longest active cartoon contributor with over 1,000 drawings (and more than three score covers) published. Here’s his entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of
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Video Of Interest: Harry Bliss The Center For Cartoon Studies Spring Will Eisner Lecture: “An Hour With Harry Bliss”… Mr. Bliss began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. See it here. Visit Harry Bliss’s website here. __________________________________________________ Catching Up With A New Yorker State Of Mind It’s been too long since we checked in on a Spill fave site,
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96 Years Ago Today: Issue # 1 OF The New Yorker Appeared On Newstands Last night, while re-reading Scott Elledge’s terrif E.B. White bio I came across this passage: “The first issue of The New Yorker appeared on the newstands on Thursday, February 19, 1925. [E.B.White] remembers vividly the momentous afternoon when he ‘swung into Grand Central Terminal’… and ‘laid
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