Edward Koren’s Supermarketing Packet The Spill‘s archives are so much richer because of folks who send objets d’New Yorker cartoon art this way. I’m so grateful for the generosity shown the Spill. A recent arrival is this small postcard size advertising packet featuring the late great Edward Koren‘s art. I looked though all the materials within the packet but could
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A Group: Nurit Karlin, Joe Dator, Charles Barsotti, Lou Myers “A Group” is a Spill series pulling together work by New Yorker artists, just for the fun of it. Photo: work above, clockwise from top-left: Nurit Karlin, Joe Dator, Lou Myers, Charles Barsotti How incredibly distinct each one of these cartoonists styles
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
Read moreFrom Attempted Bloggery, June 11, 2017, “Lou Myers in Times Square” — this piece on a Lou Myers tour de force promotional mailer from 1973. Mr. Myers, who died in November of 2005, contributed stories, cartoons and one cover to the New Yorker from 1974 through 1989. In Mr. Myers’ NYTs obit, Steven Heller wrote: “Mr. Myers developed a deceptively
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