Friday Spill: “Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery; The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portraits Of My Community”; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Chicago Magazine Article Of Interest: Ken Krimstein: Bob Eckstein Illustrates New And Renovated Bookstores

“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

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55 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

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