You may have noticed on this site an occasional mention of the Peter Arno biography I’ve been working on for the past 15 years. If so, you’ll understand that this is one of those light-at-the-end-of-the-publishing-tunnel moments: the reveal of the cover. The manuscript is now in the galley phase; the book itself will be showing up in your local bookstores
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Early Football
And one more for this holiday/football weekend. (Originally published in The New Yorker way back in 2006):
Read moreBook of Interest: The Complete Dick Tracy, Vol. 19: 1959 – 61
From time-to-time I momentarily take Ink Spill outside The New Yorker cartoon orbit — in this case a brief auto-biographical moment. As a kid I was deep into Batman and Superman comic books as well as the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strips. While they’ve never been all that obvious an influence on my own drawings in The New Yorker, they’re
Read more68 Entries About Bagels: Bob Mankoff talks Caption Contest
There has been a lot of ink spilled about The New Yorker‘s Caption Contest. In this brief interview with the magazine’s Cartoon Editor, we learn that there are sometimes very close calls when it comes to picking a winner. [Full disclosure: the cartoon is mine; my original caption had nothing to do with bagels]
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