Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg; Video Of Interest: Al Hirschfeld; The Tilley Watch Online, February 14-18, 2022

    Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg From Baruch College’s The Ticker, February 19, 2022, “Celebrating Ticker Alumni: Mort Gerberg”  A good catching-up piece about Mr. Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965.  He was the subject on an Ink Spill interview last year.   — above: Mort Gerberg, on the left, with George Booth.  ___________________________________________________________________ Video

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Friday Spill: Podcast Episode Of Interest: Ken Levine On Becoming A Cartoonist; The Daily Cartoonist Shows Us Alan Dunn’s First New Yorker Cartoon

Podcast Episode Of Interest: Ken Levine From Ken Levine, one of the newest of The New Yorker cartoonist newbies (his debut New Yorker cartoon appeared in the magazine’s first issue of 2022):  “Cartooning For Fun And A Little Profit.” Mr. Levine gives us a personal history of his love of and for cartoons. If you want to head right into

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Happy 91st Birthday, Edward Sorel!; From Pat Achilles: A Cartoon In The Time Of The Coronavirus; Thurber Thursday: Hirschfeld On Thurber’s Drawings

Happy 91st Birthday, Edward Sorel! Bronx-born Edward Sorel turns ninety-one today! The Spill wishes him a very very Happy Birthday. To see this modern master’s work  visit his website. Above left: Mr. Sorel’s New Yorker cover of October 5, 1992 — the first cover under Tina Brown’s editorship of the magazine. Above right: Mr. Sorel’s must-have Unauthorized Portraits, published by

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