Wednesday Spill: Swann’s Jules Feiffer Auction Includes Work By Charles Addams, Alan Dunn, Lee Lorenz, Leo Cullum, Carl Rose, Jack Ziegler, Mischa Richter; A Steinberg Exhibit…”On The Table”

“Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights From The Collection Of Jules Feiffer” is on for June 20th. The collection contains numerous pieces by such New Yorker contributors as Charles Addams, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper, Carl Rose, Edward Sorel, Mischa Richter, Leo Cullum, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Wallace Morgan, Gahan Wilson, Alan Dunn, and John Held, Jr.. –above:

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Wednesday Spill: A Bunch O’ Books On The Horizon

A number of books by or about New Yorker cartoonists are on the way. Yippy!  Here’s a round-up of all known to me, in order of their pub dates, beginning with the soonest (If I’ve left anyone out, please let me know): May 14th…   Bob Eckstein, Footnotes From The Most Fascinating Museums (Princeton Architectural Press). Mr. Eckstein began contributing

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Lee Lorenz, New Yorker Artist, And Former New Yorker Art & Cartoon Editor: 1932-2022

  Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015.  Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie

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