Note: After my colleague Michael Shaw posted the following piece on Face Book this afternoon, I asked if he’d share it with Ink Spill. Accompanying the piece is Michael’s illustration, an homage to James Thurber’s drawing, “Touche!” originally published in The New Yorker, December 3, 1932. Call me Thurberesque. Why? Because it’s a nice way of saying I
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All Cartoonists Are Actors
“If I’m drawing a certain type of character, I try to get into the spirit of the thing – and my wife complains about the faces I make while I’m working. All cartoonists, I guess, are actors in a way.” — George Price to Jud Hurd, Cartoonist Profiles, March 1975 If you can find it, Jud Hurd’s Price interview
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
Read moreWeekend Roundup: Chast, Bob Staake, Paul Wood, Thurber, Dorothy McKay, Clowes
From NYC-ARTs: The Complete Guide, “Selected Shorts: Roz Chast Presents ‘What I Hate dfrom A – Z’” at Symphony Space, February 8, 2012. Details here. From Wickedlocal, February 3, 2012, “Profile: Chatham artist Bob Staake” From Sixtynine degrees, February 2012, “Paul Wood exhibition!” From Playbill.com, February 5, 2012, “On the Record: A Thurber Carnival and ‘David Merrick
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