A Syd Hoff Salute From Attempted Bloggery Well this will be fun. Attempted Bloggery begins a salute to the late great Syd Hoff today. See it here! Here’s Mr. Hoff’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Syd Hoff ( Pictured above. Source: Esquire Cartoon album, 1957) Born 1912, New York City, died May 12, 2004, Miami Beach, Florida. New Yorker work:
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Vintage Steig; A Richard Decker Self Portrait & One More Kovarsky!
Vintage Steig From Mike Lynch’s blog, courtesy of Dick Buchanan’s treasure trove of cartoon art, “William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 – 1965” — see them all here. (above: from Look magazine, February 17, 1959). _____________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Self Portrait and One More Kovarsky! And speaking of Dick Buchanan, an interesting tear sheet containing a Richard Decker self portrait is
Read moreInterview of Interest: Joe Dator; Society of Illustrators Art Young Panel Discussion w/ Kunz, Brodner & Spiegelman; A Smorgasbord of Cartoons by Pat Byrnes
Interview of Interest: Joe Dator The Cartoon Companion has posted Part 2 of its interview with one of the New Yorker‘s best. Read it here. ___________________________________________________________________ Society of Illustrators Art Young Panel Check it out! Steve Brodner, Anita Kunz and Art Spiegelman will be at the Society of Illustrators on January 11, discussing Art Young. All the info here. (My
Read moreSteinberg’s Pyramids via Attempted Bloggery
Why not think about blue skies and pyramids and Steinberg on this blizzardy day in the Northeast. I took a look at Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery site this morning, scrolled through the Steinberg pyramid series he’s been focusing on and immediately thought of the cover of Steinberg’s 1973 collection, The Inspector. Somewhat similar sky, rubber stamps, clouds, colors found on
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