This is the second installment in an Ink Spill series of cartoonists talking about the important cartoon connections in their lives. Felipe Galindo wrote about Steinberg last week. This week, Tom Cheney, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978 (one of his most famous contributions
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Niculae Asciu, New Yorker Cover Artist & Cartoonist, Dies at Age 70
The long time illustrator for The New York Times, Niculae Asciu has died at age 70. Mr Asciu was also a New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist, contributing 3 covers and 23 cartoons over sixteen years, from 1974 thru 1990. Mr. Asciu was that rare cartoonist whose work, like his contemporary Nurit Karlin, was mostly captionless if not entirely wordless
Read moreCats get their due: Big New Yorker Book of Cats out in October; Gehr’s “Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist” interviews collected in book form
Following in the paw prints of The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs is The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (Random House, October 1, 2013). Anthony Lane, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher are listed as among the contributors. And of course, there’ll be cartoons. We’ll have to wait a while — til December, to be exact, for Richard
Read moreYoutube: Levin & Roberts at the Strand; Interview: Aline Kominsky Crumb
On Youtube, December 6, 2012, this nearly hour long video of yesterday’s appearance by Arnie Levin and Victoria Roberts at NYC’s Strand book store. From ICv2, December 5, 2012, “Aline Crumb on Women Cartoonists” this interview, in conjunction with the publication of Drawn Together: The Collected Works of R. & A. Crumb (Liveright, 2012).
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