Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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Tag: Frank Modell
Wednesday Spill: Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars; Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A 1990 New Yorker Promotional Brochure; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons
Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two
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Friday Spill: Newest Additions To The Spill Library; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Frank Cotham Interviewed On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Newest Additions To The Spill Library This new addition to the spotty Spill collection of bound New Yorkers was a real treat to go through. Two Arno covers out of nine issues — he was on a hot streak in those post-war years. Memorable moments: early Steinberg drawings (captionless); a few “composite” Thurber drawings, and a number of captionless artist-in-the
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Monday Tilley Watch: 48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker: Searle, Stevenson, Modell, Michaud, Weber, Harris, Fradon, Frascino
48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker This being the second week of a double issue week, there’s no new magazine art to study this rainy morn. As regular visitors to the Spill know, I occasionally do some time-traveling on these off-weeks, and look at an issue (usually selected at random) from the past. I wanted some small
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