Ink Spill’s 5th Anniversary; Charlie Hankin & Good Cop Great Cop

      _____________________________________________________________________________________________                   An Anniversary Note:  Five years ago this month I began Ink Spill with the idea of making it an online gathering place for all different kinds of information and material concerning The New Yorker‘s cartoons and cartoonists. I’m so pleased the site has found a loyal following,

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“60 Minutes” airs The Cartoonist

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

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