________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the
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Two New Podcasts: Chris Weyant on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast and Michael Maslin On The Cartoon Pad Chris Weyant is the latest guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast, hosted by Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, and Paul Nesja. Mr. Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. And on The Cartoon Pad, I
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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Fave Throw Back Photo Of The Day It’s going to come as no surprise to habitual visitors to this site that the Spill would find the above photo fascinating. What you’re seeing is just a glimpse of the black binders in The New Yorker’s library. Every New Yorker writer and artist’s work is collected in these (scrap)books. The last
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