The passing of Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek over this past tumultuous weekend caused me to seek the search box on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. I was curious as to how many Jeopardy! drawings had appeared in the magazine. Surprisingly, fewer than a dozen matches came up that specifically addressed the show: Roz Chast’s Insomnia Jeopardy published December 8,
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Back in the early 1970s, before I saw my first James Thurber drawing, when I was filling sketchbooks with work (unlike today when I fill loose single sheets of paper with drawings), I was, graphically, all over the place: a combo of what I’d taken in. And that’s essential: the taking in and trying out. But the work then wasn’t
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The Spill wishes the great cartoonist Sam Gross a very very Happy Birthday! Here’s Mr. Gross’s Spill A-Z entry: Sam Gross Born 1933, Bronx, NY. New Yorker work: August 23, 1969 –. Other than his work in The New Yorker Gross is probably best known for his work in National Lampoon. He’s edited a large number of collections, including Dogs
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UPDATE (@4:00pm) Due to weather issues in the Stockbridge, Massachusetts area, the Conversation with Liza Donnelly and myself is postponed until tomorrow evening at 5:30 on The Norman Rockwell Museum’s YouTube channel for “Cartoon Marriage: A Conversation”… Note to Readers: Continued apologies for the site experiencing issues with links & graphics. Technicians working to solve the problem. ______________________________________________________________________________ Today’s
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