While browsing through ancient copies of The New Yorker, there’s always a little jolt when I come across a cartoonist whose name is unfamiliar. It happened today when I reached page 38 of the November 29, 1930 issue and found a cartoon by George Wilson. A quick check with The New Yorker database revealed that Mr. Wilson was published just
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Cats get their due: Big New Yorker Book of Cats out in October; Gehr’s “Know Your New Yorker Cartoonist” interviews collected in book form
Following in the paw prints of The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs is The Big New Yorker Book of Cats (Random House, October 1, 2013). Anthony Lane, Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher are listed as among the contributors. And of course, there’ll be cartoons. We’ll have to wait a while — til December, to be exact, for Richard
Read moreAddams collected; Steinberg re-connected; Tom Toro’s Attack
From Stephen Nadler’s blog, Attempted Bloggery, March 11, 2013, “The Charles Addams Catalogue Raisonne” — this highly interesting post about the Addams Foundation’s plan to catalog all of Addams’ work. From Artnews, “America, the Great Colossal Collage: Saul Steinberg’s Forgotten Masterpiece” — yet another very interesting post — this one concerning a huge Steinberg mural reassembled for the first
Read moreNew Additions to “The One Club”: Barnes, D’egville, Keate, Schus, Towle, Watts, Wood
There’ve been a number of recent additions to Ink Spill’s “New Yorker Cartoonists A – Z” section, including seven cartoonists added to “The One Club” — an exclusive group of artists who contributed just one cartoon to the New Yorker in their career (they’re easy to spot in the A-Z — their listings are in red). I should add that
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