New Yorker Cartoonists Remember Gahan Wilson The New Yorker cartoonist community is quite small. Our numbers are great enough to field a softball team, but not enough to fill your average sized auditorium. Whether we knew Gahan well, or very little, or not at all, we know his work, and feel the loss of one of our family. What follows
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Meet The Artist (1943): Roberta Macdonald; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Roz Chast & Company
Meet The Artist (1943): Roberta Macdonald Another in a series of self portraits of New Yorker artists included in the Meet The Artist catalog published by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1943. Here’s Ms. Macdonald’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Roberta Macdonald (Photo courtesy of Ms. MacDonald’s daughter). Born, San Francisco, 1917. Died, Santa Rosa, California, 1999. New
Read moreMany Many Coffees Ago At The New Yorker; The Tilley Watch Online, Sept. 30 – October 4, 2019
Many Many Coffees Ago At The New Yorker Here’s a fun photo I came across in the Spill’s archives. Taken in 1987 at The New Yorker‘s long-time offices at 25 West 43rd Street.* Left to right: Roz Chast, yours truly, Liza Donnelly, Sam Gross, and Mick Stevens. The occasion may have been the art department’s annual holiday party. *Below: a
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: More And More MAD; Photo: Chatfield At A Snazzy Drawing Board; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 22-26, 2019; A New Comics Journal Column; Interview Of Interest: Paul “How To Read Nancy” Karasik
More And More MAD From The Daily Cartoonist, July 27, 2019, “We’re All MAD Here (Paeans To The Magazine)” D.D. Degg gathers cartoonist MAD pieces. ____________________________________________ Chatfield At A Snazzy Drawing Board Courtesy of Marcie Jacobs-Cole, this photo of Jason Chatfield at a drawing board at Dick Blick Art Supplies* last Thursday. Mr. Chatfield began contributing to The New
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