Courtesy of the artist, Bob Eckstein, here’s the Spill‘s favorite modern Thanksgiving cartoon, published in The New Yorker November 26, 2012. Mr. Eckstein’s latest books are All’s Fair In Love And War: The Ultimate Cartoon Book (Princeton Architectural Press), a collection of drawings by forty-two cartoonists (including this one), And, with Michael Shaw, The Elements Of Stress And The Pursuit
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It’s publication day for the Bob Eckstein edited cartoon collection, All’s Fair In Love & War, the third Ultimate Cartoon collection edited by Mr. Eckstein, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Here’s the back cover listing all the contributors (including this cartoonist): I reached out to Mr. Eckstein today with a few questions, and he was gracious enough to respond: Michael
Read more___________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival Here’s a fun post from Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery on Groucho Marx’s copy of The Hokinson Festival spotted in a photo. The Festival, published seven years after Ms. Hokinson’s death, is a great addition to any cartoon library. A bonus: it includes color plates of a few of her sixty-eight New Yorker covers.
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The Cover: It is always a treat to see a fellow cartoonist have a cover. This week is one of those weeks. Ed Steed returns with his fourth cover (he also did this week’s Spot drawings). Read art editor Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with him here. On first sight his cover recalled (minus all the flowers and whatevers) a cover by
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