Earlier this year when I ran into my New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Ken Krimstein, one of the first things we talked about was the Steinberg exhibit that had opened in Ken’s hometown, Chicago. I thought it would be interesting to hear what a New Yorker cartoonist thought of the show and Ken graciously agreed to review the exhibit for
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Seven New Yorker Cartoonists Walk Into A Book Barn
Seven New Yorker Cartoonists Walk Into a Book Barn In my hundreds of visits to the always interesting Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York I’d never walked in with six other New Yorker cartoonists…until yesterday. The Book Barn’s owner, Maureen Rodgers allowed us to sort of take over the place as we browsed and talked and generally hung
Read moreWall-to-Wall Cartoonists at David Remnick’s Hello Goodbye Party
The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick threw a Hello Goodbye party last night (Hello, Emma Allen, the magazine’s new cartoon editor; Goodbye, Bob Mankoff, the former cartoon editor). It was, by far, the largest gathering of New Yorker cartoonists since 1997, when forty-one gathered for an Arnold Newman group photo (it appeared in the magazine’s first cartoon issue, December 15,
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An Ink Spill tradition continues with the posting of an Index for the Cartoons of the Year bookazine. Why an Index you might ask. Mostly because I always enjoyed seeing them in the
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