Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg; Video Of Interest: Al Hirschfeld; The Tilley Watch Online, February 14-18, 2022

    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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Friday Spill: Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of “Stage”; New Yorker State Of Mind Deep Dives Into The December 24, 1938 Issue; More Spills: Blitt’s Kvetchbook, Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon

    Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of Stage   From Attempted Bloggery, January 7, 2022, “The New Yorker Advertises In Stage, April 1938“— a fun look at some of the art, including the new-to-my-eyes George Price illustration shown here.       A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At  The Dec 24, 1932 New Yorker This

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The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online; A Rea Irvin Album Cover

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features. The week of December 27-31, 2021 The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Emily Bernstein, Suerynn Lee, Mort Gerberg, Ellis Rosen. Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s Assistant Cartoon Editor) with Ella Quittner, Ali Fitzgerald.  Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Ringing In The New Year (On Zoom)”  _______________________________________________________

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Friday Spill: Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook; More Spills: Blitt, Larson, Fitzgerald; Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt. 3

Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021,  “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie

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