The sad news arrived here this morning that the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky died this week. He was 97. In his honor I’m re-posting the piece, in now slightly edited form, about Mr. Kovarsky that I wrote three years ago this month. The above photo, by Liza Donnelly, was taken at Mr. Kovarsky’s upper west side apartment, June,
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A Trio of Previously Unseen Kovarskys
Thanks to Gina Kovarsky, I’m pleased to post three of her father’s drawings that surfaced during the ongoing cataloging of Kovarsky’s extensive body of work. I profiled the master cartoonist on the New Yorker‘s website several years ago (the link takes you to Bob Mankoff’s blog. Scroll down a bit to get to my entry on Mr. Kovarsky). Gina reports
Read moreNew Art from Anatol Kovarsky
Last summer we checked in with the great New Yorker artist, Anatol Kovarsky for an update on his life and work. If we ever needed proof that the saying “once a cartoonist, always a cartoonist” is true, Kovarsky is that proof. At 95, he’s unable to let something slip by without graphic comment. Ink Spill received the above piece from
Read moreHarold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want to believe) a stable of magazine cartoonists unrivaled in American publishing. Some have called that era of the magazine’s cartoons its Golden Age. The guiding forces of the
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