Closing in on the end of a seemingly long double-issue two weeks — a new issue will come out next Monday — I thought it would be fun to try out a new addition to the Spill: First & Last. It’s been an interest of mine, when thinking about certain New Yorker artists, to automatically look into what their first
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Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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Swann Catalog Posted Swann Galleries December Illustration catalog is now posted. You can look through here. The auction will take place on December 16th, but in the meantime, have fun looking at the work offered (I did). Among the originals this time round are works by Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Helen Hokinson, Warren Miller, Michael ffolkes, CEM (Charles E. Martin),
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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