Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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