We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
Read moreThe Cover: As mentioned last week, this week’s cover, shown above right, by Brian Stauffer, was early released last Friday. Michael Cavna’s Washington Post piece explores like-minded images by various cartoonists. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons…and Spots: I’ve left the entire Drawings and Spots section intact this week as the Spots artist is the great R.O. Blechman — New Yorker cover
Read moreThe Cover: A retro cover! When I saw this attractive cover I immediately placed its style and structure in the early 1960s, and thought of a particular artist: the most prolific of all New Yorker cover artists, Arthur Getz. To illustrate, here’s Mr. Getz’s cover from December 18, 1965 side-by-side with this new one by Pascal Campion. The Cartoonists: The
Read moreConan Clip Of Interest Here’s a clip from a recent episode of Conan, celebrating Jose Arroyo’s debut New Yorker drawing (it appeared on page 56 of the April 15, 2019 issue). ________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts… is by Ali Fitzgerald, who has been contributing to newyorker.com since 2016. ________________________________— Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon Jeremy Nguyen on the season for wedding invites.
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