Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021, “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie
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Personal History…Desk Moving I’m not sure how other cartoonists feel about moving their desks (their work areas) around their homes. My impression, from visiting colleagues over the years is that they find a spot and stay put. That hasn’t been my experience though. Since moving into this house, more than thirty years ago, I’ve traveled four times, from room to
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W.B. Park, 1936-2021 Word has reached the Spill that the New Yorker cartoonist W.B. (William Bryan) Park has passed away. According to his obit on Legacy.com, he died on January 2nd of this new year. Born in Sanford, Florida in 1936, his first New Yorker drawing, bearing his notable scattered signature (above), appeared in the issue of July 13, 1981
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Another Harvey In The House I fell for this Alice Harvey original drawing the instant I spied it online. Luckily it has found its way to the Spill’s archives. Published in The New Yorker March 20, 1926, it was one of Harvey’s first dozen cartoons in the magazine (the Spill collection includes Ms. Harvey’s first captioned New Yorker drawing, published
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