Graphic Piece of Interest by Emily Flake From Emily Flake on The Nib, March 9, 2019, “It’s All In The Family”: ‘Can a hollow woman raise a whole, unbroken child?’” Ms. Flake began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008. Visit her website here. ____________________________________ Book On The Horizon: Peter Steiner’s “The Good Cop” It’s no secret that Peter Steiner,
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The New Yorker’s First Fourth
This stunning Ilonka Karasz cover graced the New Yorker‘s first fourth of July issue. Ms. Karasz contributed a remarkable 187 covers to the magazine; her first was on the 7th issue, April 4, 1925, her last appeared on the issue of October 22, 1973. Of note within the issue: this Helen Hokinson drawing appearing on the Talk of The Town’s
Read moreLatest Addition to Ink Spill’s Archives: “Drawings of the Theatre 1927” with Arno, Karasz, Birnbaum, and Covarrubias; More Spills: Bob Eckstein Cracks Wise for The New York Times on Debate Night; Donnelly Live-Tweet Draws Debate for CBS News
Thanks to the generosity of the illustrator Tom Bloom (who is an indefatigable collector of cartoon-related books & ephemera) Drawings of the Theatre 1927 has been added to the archives. I’d not heard of or seen
Read moreNYC Subway Car of Interest: Mark Alan Stamaty’s Illustrated Shuttle; More Spills… Harry Bliss in a Salinger Home… the new Swann Catalog with Original Art by 18 New Yorker Artists
Read all about Mark Alan Stamaty’s NYC illustrated subway car on Mike Lynch‘s blog here. Mr. Stamaty’s New Yorker debut was with this cover in November of 1992. Here’s a link to his website. _______________________________________________________________________ From newyorker.com, September 8, 2016, “Salinger’s House, Artists Retreat” — the New Yorker‘s Sarah Larson visits Harry Bliss in a Salinger home, now
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