The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil “How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. _________________________________________________________________ From The Dept
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Amy Kurzweil Meets A Robot From Believer Magazine, December 1, 2020, “(Me)chanical Reproduction: Technofeelia Vol.3”— Ms. Kurzweil travels to Vermont to meet Bina, a robot. Amy Kurzweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here. _________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Emily Flake, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008, on social distancing at
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Early Richter I’ve always thought that the late Mischa Richter’s cartoon roots were heavily influenced by Peter Arno’s work (something he vehemently denied when I interviewed him in 1999).* This early Mischa Richter drawing currently on Ebay is interesting in that it seems to show a Steig influence. The fellow staring at the wall thermometer is right out of William
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