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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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
Read moreHappy 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
Read moreBaseball in the air, on the field and on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker (actually, stickball’s on the cover, which appears, to me anyway, as if it’s a page out of an illustrated book). Fewer illustrations/photos this week than last, but still, there are three full pages (including a full page photo of Hitler), and
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