The New York Historical Society has an upcoming event, “Superheroes in Gotham” that includes, according the the website CBR, a Superman cartoon by Mort Gerberg. For more New Yorker Superman cartoons (and Batman) by a variety of the magazine’s artists go The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site and type in your preference in the search box. At last look,
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Book of Interest: The Complete Dick Tracy, Vol. 19: 1959 – 61
From time-to-time I momentarily take Ink Spill outside The New Yorker cartoon orbit — in this case a brief auto-biographical moment. As a kid I was deep into Batman and Superman comic books as well as the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strips. While they’ve never been all that obvious an influence on my own drawings in The New Yorker, they’re
Read moreIt’s Not All About New Yorker Cartoons…But Mostly It Is
It makes sense that the shelves of the cartoon library of two New Yorker cartoonists would be sagging under the weight of New Yorker cartoon collections. But a large fragment of what makes up our cartoon library has little to do with New Yorker cartoons and a lot to do with work that initially inspired us, and
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A few years ago I put up eight foot long by eight foot high bookshelves exclusively devoted to holding the sprawling collection of cartoon books my wife (and fellow cartoonist) Liza Donnelly, and I have collected over the years. Before the cartoon library wall of shelves went up, our cartoon collection was here and there throughout the house, in
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