“Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery Thanks to Daniel Borinsky via Stephen Nadler’s terrif Attempted Bloggery we have this survey of “good provider” New Yorker cartoons over the decades. Read it all here. — above: Barney Tobey’s “good provider” cartoon from The New Yorker, June 25, 1984 ___________________________________________________________________ The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portrait Of My
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Friday Spill: Newest Additions To The Spill Library; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Frank Cotham Interviewed On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Newest Additions To The Spill Library This new addition to the spotty Spill collection of bound New Yorkers was a real treat to go through. Two Arno covers out of nine issues — he was on a hot streak in those post-war years. Memorable moments: early Steinberg drawings (captionless); a few “composite” Thurber drawings, and a number of captionless artist-in-the
Read more55 Years Ago Today; A Timely 1960 Frank Modell Cartoon; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; A Cartoonist At The Culture Desk; The Passing of Mad’s Mort Drucker
55 Years Ago Today The other day I mentioned that April 10th is the 55th anniversary of the publication of Mort Gerberg’s first New Yorker drawing (I Spilled the drawing published in that issue of April 10, 1965). It was, however, not the first drawing he sold to the magazine. His first sale appears above (quite a beginning!). It appeared
Read moreAbout Jack (Ziegler); An Evergreen Cartoon From Dana Fradon
Ordinarily I’d rather not think too much about the end days of good friends. But today I can’t quite shake thinking about my New Yorker cartoonist colleague and friend, Jack Ziegler, who passed away on this day three years ago. His unexpected finale was a shock; the aftershocks continue. Photo: Jack Ziegler with New Yorker cartoonist Dick Cline draped
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