The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick threw a Hello Goodbye party last night (Hello, Emma Allen, the magazine’s new cartoon editor; Goodbye, Bob Mankoff, the former cartoon editor). It was, by far, the largest gathering of New Yorker cartoonists since 1997, when forty-one gathered for an Arnold Newman group photo (it appeared in the magazine’s first cartoon issue, December 15,
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Back-To-Back Cartoonists Covers
Having just mentioned how great it was to see last week’s Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker cover, I almost (almost) fell off my chair when the latest issue appeared featuring a Roz Chast cover. A quick scan of the past twenty years or so of covers turned up a couple of other back-to-back appearances by the magazine’s regularly contributing cartoonists.
Read moreThink Good Thoughts About an Exhibition: George Booth Show Coming to The Society of Illustrators in the Fall
This Fall the Society of Illustrators will exhibit work by one of the New Yorker’s greatest artists, George Booth. Mr. Booth’s daughter, Sarah Booth, told Ink Spill that besides the hanging art “there will also be video and pictures and [a concentration] on George’s process, how he worked with cut and paste to the final cartoon.” More information will be
Read moreSigned & Drawn
From the always interesting Attempted Bloggery, this fun piece, with scans, about a signed copy of Lee Lorenz’s The Art of The New Yorker. (Mr. Lorenz was the Art Editor of The New Yorker from 1973 — 1993, then Cartoon Editor from 1993 — 1997).
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