As we rapidly approach the end of Bob Mankoff’s tenure as the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Ink Spill takes a quick look back to the mid 1990s (before Mr. Mankoff was appointed by Tina Brown to that position) when he founded something called the Cartoon Bank. The CB (as it came to be called in the cartoon community) was eventually
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An Edward Koren Exhibit & Talk; New Yorker’s Latest Cartoons, Rated On A Scale of 1 to 6; The Tilley Watch: Fact-Checking At The New Yorker
An exhibit of original art by one of The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Gods, Edward Koren, will open Saturday March 18 at Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. BMAC’S Website here. From the press release: Quirky creatures will…inhabit the exhibit SERIOUSLY FUNNY in the museum’s East Gallery. The exhibit consists of 16 original drawings and prints by longtime New Yorker cartoonist
Read moreEmma Allen To Succeed New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
In a memo to all New Yorker Cartoonists this afternoon, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick announced that Emma Allen, a New Yorker editor will succeed Bob Mankoff as cartoon editor in two months time. In part, the memo reads: The person I’ve chosen to be the next cartoon editor
Read moreGerberg at The New School Tonight; Another New Cartoonist at The New Yorker; An Early Sidney Harris Collection
A reminder that long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Mort Gerberg will be speaking at The New School this evening. All the details here. Mr. Gerberg’s entry on Ink Spill’s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Mort Gerberg Born, March 11, 1931, New York, NY. NYer work: April 10, 1965 – . Co-edited, with Ron Wolin & Ed Fisher, The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five
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