Felipe Galindo posted this great photo on FB today. Taken on Tuesday afternoon at Pergolas, a favorite New Yorker cartoonists “look day” restaurant. Left to right: Sam Gross, Felipe Galindo, George Booth
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Arno
The late great New Yorker artist, Peter Arno was born 110 years ago today at home in Morningside Heights, New York. As many regular visitors to Ink Spill know, I began a biography of Mr. Arno back in 1999. Someday, a publisher willing, Mad At Something: The Life and Times of Peter
Read moreIt Was Twenty Years Ago Today: Catching Up with…The New Yorker’s Frank Cotham
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: Catching Up With The New Yorker‘s Frank Cotham I met Frank Cotham just once, in 1997 at a photo shoot organized during the Tina Brown era at the magazine. Forty-one cartoonists showed up to pose for Arnold Newman (the group photo was published in the very first Cartoon Issue of The New Yorker). After
Read moreVideo: A Cartoonist at The New Yorker Festival; A look at a Gahan Wilson novel; Stiller’s “Walter Mitty” premiers in NYC (and the critics disagree)
Now that The New Yorker Festival has entered the history books, we can point out a New Yorker cartoonist moment to watch. With the endearingly funny Andy Borowitz at the helm of “A New Yorker Night with The Moth” Matthew Diffee makes an appearance, telling us about his journey to becoming a New Yorker cartoonist, and running
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