Wednesday Spill: Attempted Bloggery On The Paul Goldberg Cartoonograph Collection; Fave Photo Of The Week: Mick Stevens & Paul Karasik

Attempted Bloggery On The Paul Goldberg Cartoonograph Collection From the Paul Goldberg collection: a number of postcard sized 1967 autographed and cartoonographed pieces (including a handful of New Yorker artists, or, in Sam Gross’s case, soon to be New Yorker artist).   Attempted Bloggery shows & tells here.  Sam Gross’s A-Z Entry: Sam Gross Born 1933, Bronx, NY. Died, May

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Wednesday Spill: Mick Stevens And Paul Karasik In Conversation On Martha’s Vineyard; Erika Sjule On Adrian Tomine

                  Mick Stevens And Paul Karasik In Conversation On Martha’s Vineyard New Yorker cartoonists Mick Stevens and Paul Karasik will appear tomorrow on Martha’s Vineyard  in a talk billed as “What’s So Funny? Backstage At A New Yorker Cartoon…”  Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker at the cusp of the

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023; Book Stories

The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023   An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Will Santino, Ellis Rosen, Kit Fraser, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Timothy Cahill and Ryan Walls).   _____________________________________________________________________________ Book Stories I thought it would be fun, on

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Wednesday Spill: Two Books… “Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons” & “Hold That Thought: 12 Cartoonists On Their Worlds Of Humor””

  Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons   Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, won’t be out til the Summer of 2024, but here’s the just released cover, featuring a Mick Stevens cartoon.  From the publisher (Prometheus):  “Funny Stuff is a tribute to a unique art form: the single-panel gag

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