Happy 94th Birthday, Edward Sorel! All the best wishes for Edward Sorel, born this day in 1929. Mr. Sorel’s most recent book is his memoir, Profusely Illustrated, published last year. In his honor, I’m showing some of his other books, each and every one, a must-read. …and let’s not forget Sorel’s first New Yorker cover. It heralded the beginning
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Personal History: A Tilley Box Under The Tree It’s not unusual that our family here at Spill headquarters is New Yorker-centric. Years ago, my New Yorker colleague (& wife), Liza Donnelly and I told CBS News that our kids grew up speaking cartoon. They can usually ID which cartoonist we’re talking about just by hearing the cartoonist’s first name: For
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to
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