Fairfield County Connecticut’s Cartoonists Here’s a really nice article in Vanity Fair, “When Fairfield County Was the Comic-Strip Capital of The World” – written by Cullen Murphy, whose father drew “Prince Valiant” — a number of New Yorker artists show up (as you might expect as the county also had a large concentration of cartoonists from the magazine…see this link
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George Booth: Model; Michael Crawford’s Maps; Roz Chast’s National Book Festival Poster
George Booth: Model The cartoonist , Mike Lynch has recently turned up an issue of Leatherneck (October, 1951) with George Booth on the cover. Sarah Booth has confirmed that is indeed her father having his helmet painted, telling the Spill, “I’d know that look of mischief anywhere!” According to Lee Lorenz’s The Essential George Booth (Workman, 1998), Mr. Booth, who
Read moreFave Photo of the Day; An Obscure Hoff
Of many wonderful photos from Jack Ziegler‘s memorial this past Saturday, this one really caught my eye. Taken by the New Yorker‘s former television critic, Nancy Franklin, we see, from the left, the New Yorker‘s newly appointed cartoon editor, Emma Allen, then Anne Hall Elser, and Lee Lorenz, the magazine’s art editor from 1973 through 1993, and then cartoon editor from
Read moreFirsts: Jack Ziegler
Beginning today, Ink Spill will every so often, and without warning, run the first New Yorker cartoon by one of its artists. Accompanying the drawing will be that issues Table of Contents, so we have an idea of the lay of the magazine’s cartoon land at that time. Starting
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