Charles Saxon On A Motorcycle I never really thought of Charles Saxon as a motorcycle guy. It just goes to show you: it’s never a good idea to judge a cartoonist by their cartoons. Mr. Saxon, who I met just once, seemed more of a sports car guy (an image I probably will cling to despite photographic evidence of
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Saxon’s Olive Here at Spill headquarters we’ve had the Charles Saxon drawing you see above hanging up for quite awhile. It’s an illustration Saxon did for a mystery ad campaign (it wasn’t a mystery to him — it’s a mystery to me. I can’t find a published example). When this original came our way, it was accompanied by two other
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Hilary Campbell’s Gallery Show “Today: 10 Years Of Cartooning” Thursday Hilary Campbell, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is interviewed here about Thursday’s opening at ArtsClub. Visit her website. Her new book, out January 10, is What Did I Do Today? ______________________________________________________________ Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod It’s always fun to hear The Cartoon Caption
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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