Between You & Me &… Eustace Tilley; Peter Steiner’s Hopeless But Not Serious on ICE; Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated

Between You & Me &…Eustace Tilley Here’s a fascinating addition to the Spill‘s archives: the Korean edition of Mary Norris‘s truly wonderful book, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. As you can see it sports Rea Irvin’s iconic cover from the New Yorker‘s inaugural issue. This usage of the cover is, to my knowledge, a first (Ms.

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Slide Show of Interest: Liza Donnelly’s Live Drawings for CBS News; Blog of Interest: Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious”; Thurber’s “Many Moons” — the Chinese Edition

Slide Show of Interest: Liza Donnelly’s Live Drawings for CBS News  CBS News has posted a slide show sampler of Liza Donnelly’s work from 2017 (she’s their resident cartoonist).  See it here.  Below: the CBS News Control Room ______________________________________________________________________ Blog of Interest: Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Peter Steiner, the artist and writer who brought us one of the

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Jerry Dumas Profiled; Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Returns; Gerberg Talks Cartoons

From The Comics Journal, January 6, 2017, “Jerry Dumas, Cartoonist and Poet” — Mr. Dumas, who died this past November, is profiled by a comics writer, R.C. Harvey. Ink Spill’s notice of Jerry Dumas’s passing. ________________________________________________________________ Peter Steiner, author of the classic New Yorker cartoon, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”  has a new post on his Hopeless

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Out Today: Peter Steiner’s “The Capitalist”

Peter Steiner‘s fifth novel, The Capitalist, is out today and available at your local bookseller and wherever else books are sold. From Kirkus Reviews: “…impresses both as thriller and morality play, building a memorable and complex tapestry of greed and culpability.” Here’s a link to Mr.Steiner’s website. See his New Yorker work here. Link here to his blog, Hopeless But

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