From Comics DC, January 9, 2018, “Touring the LoC’s Drawn to Purpose exhibit with curator Martha Kennedy” — an interesting walk through with Mike Rhode. Among the New Yorker contributors mentioned: Barbara Shermund, Roberta MacDonald, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Helen Hokinson, and Alice Harvey. Read it here. Link to the Library of Congress’s page here. ________________________________________________________________________________ Exhibit of Interest: Shannon
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Two Blog Posts of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind & Attempted Bloggery
Two favorite New Yorker-related blogs making for fun Saturday reading. First, A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker with its look at the issue of June 30, 1928 featuring the ever pleasing work of Helen Hokinson on the cover. Work shown in the post: Alice Harvey, Al Frueh, and Peter Arno. And then there’s
Read moreFave Photo of the Day: Nurit Karlin and Liza Donnelly; Eldon Dedini’s Concours d’Elegance Posters; Latest Addition to Ink Spill’s Archives: A 1926 New Yorker Advertising Booklet
Below’s a photo of two wonderful New Yorker cartoonists taken this morning in Tel Aviv. On the left is Liza Donnelly (no stranger to the Spill) and to the right is Nurit Karlin, who we don’t see enough of here. I think of Ms. Karlin’s work (as I think of Ms. Donnelly’s work) in the Thurber school: a simple line
Read moreA Roomful of Cartoonists
As anyone could guess, a home inhabited by two cartoonists is bound to have a lot of cartoons around. Not just our own, but cartoons from our New Yorker family; cartoonists we’ve only known by their work, cartoonists we’ve just met, and cartoonists we’ve known for a very long time.
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