Packing Up Mort Gerberg’s Papers I’ve visited with just a few colleagues at their studios who were in the pre-stage of sending off their archives to an institution. But until Karen Greene (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University Libraries and Librarian/Specialist at Columbia University in the City of New York) posted the series below on Facebook I’d never
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62 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker If you’ve spent any time visiting this site you’ll know I like to occasionally pull bound volumes of New Yorkers off our shelves and discover what’s inside. Although I’ve been through each volume in the Spill’s library there’s always something or other I’ve missed. This morning I grabbed the April-May 1960
Read moreCartoon Pad Pod Guest: Teresa Burns Parkhurst Those wacky hosts, Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw are back with another installment of the Cartoon Pad pod. This week’s guest is Teresa Burns Parkhurst, who began contributing to The New Yorker in the Fall of 2017. Link here to listen. You can see some of Ms. Parkhurst’s New Yorker work here. ___________________________________________________________________
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My daily trips around the world wide web (I miss that usage) always include an Ebay stop. After a dry period of not-much-happening online a small number of original drawings by New Yorker artists have shown up. I’ll begin with Ed Fisher. We don’t see too many of his originals up for grabs, but at this writing there are
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