More Mahrer New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding” Bill Maher continues “decoding” New Yorker cartoons with his guests. This week his guest is Gavin Rossdale. Watch here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sunday Reading…Back to The Beginning Above are books containing work that energized me as a little kid, and prompted me to draw. Every cartoonist rests on a foundation of work by others. Every now
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I thought it would it would be fun to do a sort of quick (upsidedown) family tree of the graphics that swept me along to the present day. If you’ve been reading the Spill for awhile, you’re probably aware of some of this. While it’s my past I’m talking about, some of the “branches” very likely apply to a lot
Read moreFrom time-to-time I momentarily take Ink Spill outside The New Yorker cartoon orbit — in this case a brief auto-biographical moment. As a kid I was deep into Batman and Superman comic books as well as the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strips. While they’ve never been all that obvious an influence on my own drawings in The New Yorker, they’re
Read moreLiza Donnelly heads to France this week, where she’ll join three other cartoonists at the Forum d’Avignon. (illustration above from the Forum’s program) Video: from newyorker.com, November 13, 2012, “Beck’s New Song ‘Old Shanghai,’ Played by New Yorker Staffers” (with Farley Katz and Marc Phillipe Eskenazi). Every once in awhile, Ink Spill links
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