Carrying on a Spill Super Bowl tradition, here’s my drawing from The New Yorker issue of October 16, 2006. And below, since we’re in such a heavy political time, here’s another (my only other football drawing) from the issue of October 23, 2017. ___________________________________________________________________ Three Helen Hokinson Covers For The Stage Browsing around the web this Groundhog Day morning
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Article Of Interest: Whitney Darrow, Jr. Profile In Feb 1950 American Artist; Not A “Disgruntled” Employee; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Warren Bernard, frequent Spill supplier of New Yorker archival materials, has unearthed this fab February 1950 American Artist article on the late great New Yorker artist Whitney Darrow, Jr.. My thanks to Mr. Bernard for sharing it with us. As a bonus, there’s an ad featuring Mr. Darrow, Jr.’s favorite drawing paper. Whitney Darrow, Jr.’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Read moreMr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago; Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks; The Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf of Baghdad” Out Next Week; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Mr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago Apparently, I was, unusually, way ahead of a developing story. Here’s a drawing of mine published by The New Yorker in 2000 (it was within a double issue: Dec. 25, 2000/January 1, 2001). _______________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks From Chicago Magazine, January 22, 2020, “The Weird, Whimsical World Of Rich Sparks” — this
Read moreFave Photo Of The Day: A Dozen New Yorker Cartoonists At Lunch; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Roz Chast & Patricia Marx’s 2020 Book Tour Schedule
Fave Photo Of The Day: New Yorker Cartoonists At Lunch New Yorker cartoonists get together all the time, usually in groups of two or three. Every so often there’s a larger crowd, like today’s gathering of a dozen on Manhattan’s upper east side. They’re pictured above (the year each cartoonist began contributing to the magazine appears beside their name). Seated,
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