The Ink Spill Interview: Edward Koren Of the nearly 700 artists who have contributed cartoons to The New Yorker in its 97 years, Edward Koren is among the half-dozen who have contributed 60 years or more. 60 years of cartoons and covers! That is a massive amount of commitment, resilience, artistry,
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The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101. And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner. Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry,
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Basketball The Cartoonists: Eleven cartoons, eleven cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). One newbie: Jack Reilly, who is the 12th addition to the magazine’s stable of cartoonists this year, and the 112th addition since Emma Allen was
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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