Back in August of 2007, when I nervously decided to launch Ink Spill, the idea was to make it a sort of New Yorker cartoonist bulletin board, with a healthy dose of history. Those basic elements have hung in there — they remain the backbone of the site. Sixteen years later, I begin each day happily fishing for New Yorker
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The Tilley Watch Online An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sarah Kempa, Colin Tom, Caitlin Cass, Brendan Loper, Pat Achilles, Amy Hwang. Daily Shouts cartoonists: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, J.A.K. (with Ginny Hogan and Alex Connolly). …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: AOC’s gown. ___________________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Ivan Ehlers From Pocket
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In the summer of 2007, I started a website devoted to my work — it seemed like that was the thing to do at the time; I imagined everybody in the New Yorker cartoon community was building a website — although that was far from true. Once my site was up and running, with examples of my work, and
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James Thurber And Mary Petty The other day I mentioned Morris Markey’s That’s New York! featuring Johan Bull’s illustrations. Mary Petty’s one and only collection of her work, This Petty Pace (Knopf, 1945) isn’t the same animal. James Thurber had at least two intersections with Ms. Petty’s collection. He not only provided the title (from Macbeth :“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and
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