As we’re in the second week of a double issue (the issue of April 24 & May 1, 2023), there’s no new issue to look at this Monday morning. In place of the normal Monday survey, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look at a small group of work on a mantel in the Spill‘s cartoon
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Curated Cartoons Website Launched Curated Cartoons (mentioned on the Spill last week), an online gallery featuring original New Yorker cartoon art, has just launched its website. If I’m counting correctly, the site features original art from
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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
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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