Donnelly “Seeing Things” Podcast #4 The fourth in a series of short (13 minute) podcasts by Liza Donnelly with this cartoonist. From Ms. Donnelly’s description of the episode: “Another episode of a conversation between two New Yorker cartoonists, myself and Michael Maslin. We happen to also be married, so hopefully it makes for an interesting back and forth. No fight broke
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
Read moreDanny Shanahan has been exceptionally generous to Ink Spill’s archives over the years, donating cartoon books and objects d’cartoons. This afternoon, while he and I sat in a coffee shop talking shop, he handed over a pile of paperbacks (pictured at the bottom of this post). There are several gems in that pile, but the one I’ve focused
Read moreHere’s a little gem of a cartoon collection I found not long ago. Colliers had the very good habit of collecting cartoons that appeared in its pages. It’s A Gift!, published in 1947, includes work by New Yorker contributors John Ruge, Gardner Rea, Virgil Partch aka VIP, Hank Ketcham, Larry Reynolds, Garrett Price, and Barney Tobey. The editor, Gurney Williams,
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