Sam Gross On His Friend, Bill Woodman — Above on the left, Sam Gross; Bill Woodman on the right. The Spill asked a few long-time New Yorker artists to say a few words about their colleague, Bill Woodman, who passed away last Saturday. Here’s what Sam Gross had to say: “Bill and I wrote and drew gags together for
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— Photo courtesy of Anne Hall Elser Sad news has come this way via Mike Lynch that the great cartoonist Bill Woodman passed away on Saturday. Between 1975 and 2003, Mr. Woodman published one hundred and
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The Cover: It is always a treat to see a fellow cartoonist have a cover. This week is one of those weeks. Ed Steed returns with his fourth cover (he also did this week’s Spot drawings). Read art editor Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with him here. On first sight his cover recalled (minus all the flowers and whatevers) a cover by
Read more___________________________________________________________________________________ A fun evening at Parsons School of Design back in October of 1984. The occasion was the opening of a group show of New Yorker art. The group photo above and the smaller photos, by T. Dovidio, appeared in The Village Voice. Below is a barely legible key (sorry!) to the artists shown. One person is unknown to me.
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