Above: Edward Frascino With Aristide Maillol’s “The Mediteranean” at The Museum Of Modern Art, about 1955. Photo courtesy of Mr. Frascino When I joined The New Yorker’s stable of cartoonists in the late 1970s there were perhaps two dozen regulars whose work anchored the magazine’s art. The strength of the stable was, as you would expect, superior cartoonery
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The Cover A rarity this new issue: an “after” cover (aside from all the take-offs on Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley). The cover artist, Pascal Campion gives a shout-out to Mark Ulriksen’s November 2012 New Yorker cover, shown below left: Here’s what Mr. Ulriksen had to say about his cover back then. And here’s what The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise
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The Cover: Kadir Nelson‘s cover celebrates the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Negro leagues. A Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt is the fifteenth, with a “Sketchbook”). The lead off cartoon is by one of our veteran cartoonists, Ed Frascino, who began contributing to The New
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Note to Readers: Ink Spill was down nearly all of yesterday due to who knows what (that’s as technical as I get). Sorry about that. The Monday Tilley Watch is off this week as we’re in the second week of a double issue (August 3 & 10, 2020). Just for fun I thought I’d take a quick look at the
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