Simon Bond: 1947 -2011; Interview: Shannon Wheeler

From The UK’s Independent, July 26, 2011, this obit of Simon Bond, whose cartoons appeared in The New Yorker five times, from August 6, 1979 through April 25, 1988:   “Simon Bond: Cartoonist and illustrator best known for his book ‘101 Uses For a Dead Cat’”   From geekgirlonthestreet.com. July 25, 2011, “Geek of the week: Eisner award winning cartoonist,

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More From the Attic: Our Own Baedeker from The New Yorker

  Continuing on from yesterday’s post, pictured above is Our Own Baedeker from The New Yorker (Simon & Schuster, 1947).  Carl Rose supplied ten maps and one hundred and eighty illustrations. The written pieces all ran during World War II. Regular visitors to Ink Spill might well ask, “Why these posts of ancient material all of a sudden?”  The answer

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