A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: fear. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook”). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist. Number of cartoons with cats:
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Last Friday’s opening of “Cartooning While Black” with work by the artists Victor Varnado, Akeem Roberts, Yasin Osman, and Jerald Lewis II, was an historic occasion. The show is the very first exhibit by Black New Yorker cartoonists. The Spill asked Mr. Varnado to speak on this moment, and here’s what he had to say: “I’m proud of the Cartooning
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Video Interview Of Interest: Victor Varnado & Akeem Roberts on NBC From NBC, this interview with Victor Varnado (left above) and Akeem Roberts on the just opened exhibit, Cartooning While Black, and The Anti-Racism Activity Book shown below: Both Mr. Varnado and Mr. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in the very same issue: July 8, 2019. _________________________________________________ All
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