The Sam Gross Cartoon Pad Interview New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad podcast (appearing every other week) is back. This week’s guest is the one-and-only Sam Gross. Mr. Gross talks about Charles Addams, Peter Porges, and Roz Chast, among others. Listen to it here. Sam Gross’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Sam Gross Born
Read more
Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House has brought to the Spill‘s attention an article illustrated by James Thurber* way way back in March of 1937 for Stage magazine. I will let Mr. Stoliar do the talking from this point on : They [Thurber’s Marx Brothers drawings] were done to illustrate an article by Teet Carle
Read more
A William Hamilton Marx Brothers Drawing Here’s a fun post on Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery regarding a Marx Brothers-centric William Hamilton New Yorker drawing that appeared in the issue of December 11, 1971 (see below). According to author Steve Stoliar, it once belonged to Groucho Marx. But whither post-Groucho? Read all about it here. ________________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist &
Read more___________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival Here’s a fun post from Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery on Groucho Marx’s copy of The Hokinson Festival spotted in a photo. The Festival, published seven years after Ms. Hokinson’s death, is a great addition to any cartoon library. A bonus: it includes color plates of a few of her sixty-eight New Yorker covers.
Read more