Long-time New Yorker artist, Victoria Roberts has sent the below piece this way. My thanks to her for sharing it with Spill readers. “Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty died on April 6th, aged 93. His work graced the pages of Punch and The New Yorker, and he won an Academy Award for his film “Leisure” in 1977. But what I will
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Bruce Petty…1929-2023 Mr. Petty, who contributed 62 cartoons to The New Yorker between 1959 and 1969, died yesterday at age 93. From The Daily Cartoonist, April 6, 2023: Bruce Petty And here’s an obit from his home country: The Sunday Morning Herald, April 6, 2023, “Bruce Petty, Cartoonist, Sculptor, and Oscar Winner, Dies Age 93” His first New Yorker cartoon
Read moreHere’s a treat: a slideshow of 94 cartoons by Bruce Petty (once you’ve gone to the new page, scroll down to Mr. Petty’s name, and click). Petty’s work appeared in The New Yorker for a decade (1959-69). I’ve always (graphically) linked Mr. Petty’s work with Niculae Asciu and Dean Vietor’s — highly energetic lines, as close to animated cartoons
Read moreThe long time illustrator for The New York Times, Niculae Asciu has died at age 70. Mr Asciu was also a New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist, contributing 3 covers and 23 cartoons over sixteen years, from 1974 thru 1990. Mr. Asciu was that rare cartoonist whose work, like his contemporary Nurit Karlin, was mostly captionless if not entirely wordless
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