Francoise Mouly On The Passing Of Aline Kominsky-Crumb When I saw the sad news of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s passing the other day, I got up from my work table and walked a few steps to a bookshelf that holds the small number of “underground” comics I’ve managed to hold onto since the mid 1970s. I knew that I wouldn’t have
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We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
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A Thurber In Many Rooms Well here’s something a bit different for Thurber Thursday: hotel news. The “newly expanded” Hilton Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio is placing prints of Thurber art (the dog shown above) in many (all?) of its rooms. How great is that! Here’s part of the pr from the hotel: “The new 402 tower continues the Hilton
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Along For The Ride Funny how some things accompany a person for decades, somehow surviving the moves from state-to-state, apartment-to-apartment, house-to-house, and so on. The humble Koh-I-Noor case above is an example. It and its contents: a few stubby color pencils, a slim green dowel from who-knows-what, and a dried something or other — have been with me
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