On The Horizon: Two R. Crumb Books Coming on tax day, 2025, a biography of R. Crumb, and a collection of his work. Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life is by Dan Nagel; R.Crumb: Existential Comics, 1979-2004
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Lee Lorenz, New Yorker Artist, And Former New Yorker Art & Cartoon Editor: 1932-2022
Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Tuesday Spill: Event Of Interest: 14 New Yorker Artists at Read360; Two Good Pages
Event Of Interest: 14 New Yorker Artists At Read360 The folks shown below will gather in NYC on May 1st. Info here. _____________________________________________________________ Two Pages Looking through a recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume of New Yorkers from the Fall of 1985 through mid-February 1986, I came across these two pages in the issue of
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview
Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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