Exhibit of Interest: R. Crumb’s Early Work; More Spills with Liza Donnelly, Victoria Roberts, Michael Crawford, and a Piece on newyorker.com’s Videos

The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery will exhibit “R. Crumb: Early Works, 1965 – 1967″ Details here. Mr. Crumb’s New Yorker debut was a cover for the 1994 anniversary issue.  His cover, titled “Elvis Tilley” marked the first break in the magazine’s sixty-eight year old tradition of running Rea Irvin’s classic Eustace Tilley  on the cover of the anniversary issue. (For

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The Realist Cartoon Anthology; The Tilley Watch

Back in June of 2015 Ink Spill noted: It’s going to be awhile before this appears in bookstores (April of 2016) but the wait will be worth it.  Here’s a description  from the publisher (Fantagraphics): The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in

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Book of Interest: An Art Young Anthology

Due March of 2017 from Fantagraphics is an Art Young anthology: To Laugh That We May Not Weep. Here’s some info from the publisher: To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career retrospective, reprinting ?often for the first time in 60 or 70 years? over 800 of Young’s timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced

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