Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg From Baruch College’s The Ticker, February 19, 2022, “Celebrating Ticker Alumni: Mort Gerberg” A good catching-up piece about Mr. Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965. He was the subject on an Ink Spill interview last year. — above: Mort Gerberg, on the left, with George Booth. ___________________________________________________________________ Video
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A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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