Article Of Interest: “Can Joy Of The Arts Bring Us Together?” From The Washington Post, November 10, 2023, “Can Joy Of The Arts Bring Us Together?” — this piece on The Jar, (with Liza Donnelly content). — photo by Eric Korenman ____________________________________________________________________ Book Spotlight Talking with a tableful of New Yorker cartoonists yesterday, Frank Modell’s name
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Tuesday Spill: A Group…Peter Arno, Warren Miller, Richard Cline; A Note About Ink Spill
A Group…Peter Arno, Warren Miller, Richard Cline Yet another grouping of New Yorker artists — this group less random than the ones before. I thought it made for an interesting contrast of the Arno / Miller school of strong graphics next to the school of
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Lee Lorenz, New Yorker Artist, And Former New Yorker Art & Cartoon Editor: 1932-2022
Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Thurber Thursday: The Other Side
The Other Side Last week I showed you the rabbits side of a Thurber piece recently arrived here at the Spill. The piece is unusual in that it has drawings on both sides. As promised, here’s the other side: Here’s what the drawings looked like when published in The New Yorker, July 29, 1939 as part V of Thurber’s series,
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