In last night’s installment of 60 Minutes, Morley Safer & Company brought us “The Cartoonist” — a look at the weekly selection process for New Yorker cartoons, a glimpse of some of the cartoonists who show up at the magazine’s office every Tuesday, a peek at Editor David Remnick choosing which cartoons to buy, and a min-profile of the magazine’s
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New New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt.3: Charlie Hankin
This is third part of an Ink Spill series looking at newer New Yorker cartoonists. I asked three of the most recent additions to the magazine’s stable of artists to tell us a little about themselves and how it was they ended up at The New Yorker (previously we heard from Liana Finck and Edward Steed). The series wraps up
Read moreWestport Historical Society Exhibit Bios, Pt 4: Charles Addams, Mischa Richter, Charles Saxon
We continue with the wonderful short bios from The Westport Historical Society where the exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport is currently running. My thanks to the Society for allowing these to appear on Ink Spill.
Read moreNew Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New Yorker covers and art history from the magazine’s Golden Age, there’s no better place this winter than the Westport Historical Society
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