Mad‘s Al Jaffee…1921-2023 The Spill rarely goes out of its New Yorker-centric orbit, but I simply cannot ignore the passing of Al Jaffee, “King of The Mad Magazine Fold-In,” (according to The New York Times) who died yesterday at age 102. I know that Mr. Jaffee made a run at The New Yorker at some point (or points) in his
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview, Part 2 In Part 2 of my interview with New Yorker cartoonist, David Sipress, whose book, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir will be out March 8th, we talk about a dozen or so of David’s New Yorker drawings: where they sprang from, what he was thinking about them at
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Kuper’s MAD Cover Word has reached the Spill that Peter Kuper‘s first MAD cover appears on the magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Mr. Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011, has been a MAD contributor for 26 years, writing and illustrating one of that magazine’s iconic features, Spy vs. Spy. Mr. Kuper tells the Spill that he
Read moreThurber Thursday: Thurber Country, UK Penguin Edition Thirty-two years ago, when my New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Liza Donnelly and I were wed, she brought into the marriage, among so many other things, the Thurber UK paperbacks she’d grown up with. My fave of these, cover-wise, has always been Thurber Country, published by Penguin in 1962, the year after Thurber passed
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