Panckeri Pencilled; More Gus Mager

Drew Panckeri is up next on Jane Mattimoe’s terrif blog, A Case For Pencils. Read all about Mr. Panckeri’s tools of the trade here.       _____________________________________________________________________   From The Comics Journal, June 1, 2016, here’s “The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager 1904-1906”, Part 2 of Paul Tumey’s close look at the artist’s work.          

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Gus Mager Gets His Due; Pat Byrnes Pencilled

From The Comics Journal, May 18, 2016,  this lengthy informative piece by Paul Tumey, “The Screwball Comics of Gus Mager: Hippos, Monks and Sherlock Holmes” —  Read it here. Ink Spill’s New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z entry for Gus Mager:   Born, 1878, Newark, New Jersey. Died, July 17, 1956, Murrysville, Penn. New Yorker work: 5 cartoons, March – July of

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New Jersey’s New Yorkers…an Ink Spill Map

Here’s a look at Garden State born New Yorker contributors (including its current editor) as well as New Yorker contributors (all cartoonists) not Jersey born, but currently living there. Also included: New Yorker contributors who, though not native-born,  grew up there and/or lived there for a good while. If anyone out there has others I’ve missed (and I’m sure I

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