From time-to-time Ink Spill looks way way back at The New Yorker’s cartoon universe. Today, we’ll drop in on the issue dated fifty years ago, July 30, 1966 and take a brief look around at the cartoons and cartoonists within. In 1966, William Shawn was in his 14th year as editor of The New Yorker; the Art Editor, James Geraghty,
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“Ideas For the Pictures”: Gag Writer Helene Parsons Speaks
Sitting around a dinner table last night with three other New Yorker cartoonists, I mentioned I was working on an interview with a gag writer. Although none of us were gag writers or had ever used the services of gag writers, I was aware of the novelty of the situation: three out of four of us
Read moreFavorite New Addition to Ink Spill’s New Yorker Cartoonists Library
Danny Shanahan has been exceptionally generous to Ink Spill’s archives over the years, donating cartoon books and objects d’cartoons. This afternoon, while he and I sat in a coffee shop talking shop, he handed over a pile of paperbacks (pictured at the bottom of this post). There are several gems in that pile, but the one I’ve focused
Read moreNew Jersey’s New Yorkers…an Ink Spill Map
Here’s a look at Garden State born New Yorker contributors (including its current editor) as well as New Yorker contributors (all cartoonists) not Jersey born, but currently living there. Also included: New Yorker contributors who, though not native-born, grew up there and/or lived there for a good while. If anyone out there has others I’ve missed (and I’m sure I
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