Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan From Bruce Eric Kaplan, (his drawings are signed BEK) this promotional video for his new book, They Went Another Way.: A Hollywood Memoir (out October 22 from Henry Holt & Co.). Mr. Kaplan began contributing drawings to The New Yorker in 1991. ____________________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Two Poets & Two Cartoonists Both Bob Eckstein
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Roth Art On Updike’s Desk When I interviewed Arnold Roth in 2016, we spoke about the cover art he provided for John Updike’s Bech series. Last night I came across this 1983 TIME Magazine ad and was pleased to spot a stack of Arnie’s Bech Is Back art on Updike’s desk. On the top of the pile is what
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Michael Updike Looks For A Cartoon Michael Updike contacted the Spill recently in search of a multi-panel New Yorker drawing, published in the 1970s, similar to the one (shown below) his father, John Updike, did for The Harvard Lampoon in the early 1950s. After a thorough search through The New Yorker’s database the only drawing I found that came
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An Ilonka Karasz Updike Cover Last night, idly looking over the spines of John Updike books in the Spill library, I came upon his Olinger Stories, a 1964 paperback collection I’ve had for ages (and haven’t re-read for ages). As it’s a paperback, it never was slotted chronologically — I placed it horizontally, resting it on the hardcover Updike books.
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