David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview, Part 2 In Part 2 of my interview with New Yorker cartoonist, David Sipress, whose book, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir will be out March 8th, we talk about a dozen or so of David’s New Yorker drawings: where they sprang from, what he was thinking about them at
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Above: John Updike’s Thurber dog drawing, courtesy of Miranda Updike What can I say: I love intersections (I even live at one). Not long ago I wrote about my leaving Manhattan to live on a dairy farm in a sleepy town on the edge of the Catskills. It turned out the town once was home of Dr. Fitz Foord’s sanitorium,
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I took a moment this morning to dig through a stack of long-neglected vinyl albums. The above 1956 Dave Brubeck Trio album was just a few lps below some classical albums. The cover is by the great Arnold Roth, an artist with an abundance of tools in his artist’s toolbox (remember his covers for John Updike’s Bech books? A bonus
Read moreThe Center For Cartoon Studies up in White River Junction, Vermont has announced its fourth Residency Fellowship. According to the announcement: This residency is made possible by former CCS board member, cartoonist Harry Bliss, whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker. “I want to attract the best cartoonists working today and create a residency that is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for storytellers who
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