Henry Martin’s “Good News/Bad News” From Allan Holtz’s The Stripper’s Guide, May 23, 2023, “Under The Radar: Good News Bad News” — piece about Henry Martin’s syndicated single panel strip. Left: Mr.. Martin’s 1977 collection. Henry Martin’s A-Z entry: Henry Martin ( Pictured above. Photograph taken 1984) Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky. Died, June 30, 2020, Newtown, Pennsylvania. New Yorker work:
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As we’re in the second week of a double issue period, there are no new New Yorker cartoons to look at today. The Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday. A friend of the Spill has alerted me to a number of New Yorker “spot” drawings posted on Ebay in recent weeks. Spot drawings are those (usually) small drawings that
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It seems it’s becoming a Spill tradition to show this New Yorker drawing of mine (from the issue of December 8, 2014), and one other (on Thanksgiving day), followed by one on Friday by Liza Donnelly (leftovers-themed). ____________________________________________________________ A Favorite Thanksgiving New Yorker Cover Of the many Thanksgiving themed New Yorker covers, the one shown below, by Abe Birnbaum, has
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Personal History…5 EZ Steps To The New Yorker When I moved to Manhattan in 1977, the idea was that being close to The New Yorker’s offices might somehow help me (my work) get into The New Yorker. After getting over the jitters about actually going into the offices, I took that first big step and learned that going in didn’t
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