Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!) Friend of the Spill, David Pomerantz has sent in this outta-the-blue-never-woulda- believed-it-in-a-million-years story about a 1962 homemade horror film by New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Kraus, starring, of all people, Lee Lorenz. Link here for the full story (with more photos) in Famous Monsters magazine (the story begins on page 58). —My
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Last year I spoke with Danny Shanahan, who passed away this week, about his trio of very Thurberesque drawings that had appeared in The New Yorker. This seems like the time, place, and day to re-post that piece in its entirety. From Ink Spill, May 7, 2020: When Thurber’s Dr. Millmoss Returned To The New Yorker Via Danny
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The gavel has dropped, and the winning prices are in for the latest Swann Illustration auction (which included a number of New Yorker pieces: cartoons and covers). After looking through the results this morning, I think it’s safe to say it was a good day if you are a Frank Modell fan (two of his pieces went for the lowest
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: makeup The Cartoonists: A dozen cartoons, and a baker’s dozen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchbook). This week’s newbie is Rachel Ang, the 11th newest addition to the magazine’s stable of cartoonists, and the 89th
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