Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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I ran into the above while browsing the internet for all things Thurber. Not dated, but as you can see it was an ad for the Franklin Simon department store. James Thurber’s Spill entry on the A-Z: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: animal-walker. The Cartoonists: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a sketchbook — it’s on page 63). No duos (that we know of), no newbies. The Cartoons: Even though we’re not in the vicinity of Halloween, I
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1960s Saxon Movie Posters In the Spill‘s inbox yesterday, courtesy of The New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, these posters by the late great Charles Saxon, from the 1969 film, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. Looking around the web for any other info on the film, I ran across a couple of other usages of Saxon’s art on
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