(Above, Hokinson’s 1943 cover illustration for Emily Kimbrough’s We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood) Today’s Ink Spill was inspired by a Stevereads blog post, My Best Girls! from July 15, 2011. As the post’s author, Mr. Donoghue, points out, all of Hokinson’s collections are “well worth finding.” Here then is a checklist of all her collections: So
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Three Summer Finds
On this Summertime slow cartoon news day I thought I’d post photos of treasures found on a recent expedition northeast of my home. Jeremy, a main character from The Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine, was in a church basement thrift shop. When I held Jeremy up into the air and asked the woman manning the register, “How much?” she replied,
Read moreVideo: Dernavich, Diffee, Kanin @ Gel 2011; Jules Feiffer’s Dancer live
From Gel 2011, this video: Drew Dernavich, Matthew Diffee, and Zachary Kanin with a Fisticuffs performance. From DNAinfo, July 11,2011, “Audiences Find Their Inner Dancer at Downtown Jules Feiffer Exhibition”
Read moreBest of the Rejection Collection cover; New Yorker rejected covers collection in the works?
The cover for The Best of the Rejection Collection (Workman; pub date, October 1, 2011) can now be found on at least one of your favorite online book store sites. And in other rejected news…from the blog, workshop tsl, July 8, 2011, “ART: Who Says Rejection is a Bad Thing?” this post containing the suggestion that a rejected covers
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