The Kickstarter campaign for Leah Wolchok’s in-progress documentary, Very Semi-Serious has just begun. Watch the delightful 4 minute trailer here with Lee Lorenz, Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, Drew Dernavich, Liam Walsh, Farley Katz, Emily Flake, Sam Gross, Matt Diffee, Bob Mankoff, and a whole bunch of cartoonists at lunch.
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Scudder Middleton, New Yorker Cartoonists Hand-Holder and More
Does the name Scudder Middleton mean anything to you? It meant a little something to me, but no so much…until recently when I decided to look a little deeper into his association with The New Yorker’s art department. I’d seen his name on memos while sifting through the magazine’s archives in The New York Public
Read moreNew film on New Yorker Cartoonists: “Very Semi-Serious”
We’ve known that Leah Wolchok has been hard at work on her film about New Yorker cartoonists and thought this was an excellent time to check in with her (Ink Spill will revisit Very Semi-Serious in a matter of weeks). We asked Leah to describe her film, and give us an idea of who’s in it (so far). Here’s what
Read morePeter De Vries, Cartoon Doctor
Ink Spill occasionally takes a look at New Yorker contributors who weren’t cartoonists but whose work at the magazine was so intertwined with cartoons and/or cartoonists that it would be just plain silly not to look at them. Peter De Vries, a New Yorker staffer from 1944 through 1986, fits the bill perfectly. De Vries, who died in 1993, moved
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