This has been an unusually tough year within this peculiar family — this family of New Yorker cartoonists. Within seven months our ranks have been thinned by four: Frank Modell, William Hamilton, Anatol Kovarsky and now, this past week, Michael Crawford. Michael is remembered below by some of his cartoonist colleagues. My thanks to all for their contributions. Note: Link
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New Yorker Cartoonist Michael Crawford: An Ink Spill Appreciation
Michael Crawford, who began publishing his drawings in The New Yorker in 1984, passed away this past Tuesday afternoon. The first time I laid eyes on him, thirty-two years ago, I was sitting in a street level apartment next to Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. The apartment belonged to another New Yorker cartoonist, Richard Cline. I was
Read moreNew York Times on The American Bystander & The Neu Jorker
Here’s the New York Times weighing in on the second issue of The American Bystander as well as another publication orbiting around The New Yorker, The Neu Jorker. The late Charles Barsotti’s work can be found sprinkled throughout the Bystander as well as on its cover (and what a cover!). Also in the issue are a number of New Yorker
Read moreA Fave Photo From the Ink Spill Vault
Here’s a photo taken back in 2005 at the old Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) headquarters on Broadway in Soho (MoCCA now resides within the walls of The Society of Illustrators). Left to right: Gahan Wilson, Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, P.C. Vey, Liza Donnelly, and Jack Ziegler Note: Barbara Smaller, Liana Finck and Marisa Acocella
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