NYC Subway Car of Interest: Mark Alan Stamaty’s Illustrated Shuttle; More Spills… Harry Bliss in a Salinger Home… the new Swann Catalog with Original Art by 18 New Yorker Artists

Read all about Mark Alan Stamaty’s NYC illustrated subway car on Mike Lynch‘s blog here.   Mr. Stamaty’s New Yorker debut was with this cover in November of 1992. Here’s a link to his website. _______________________________________________________________________   From newyorker.com, September 8, 2016,  “Salinger’s House, Artists Retreat” — the New Yorker‘s Sarah Larson visits Harry Bliss in a Salinger home, now

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A Look at Mischa Richter’s Strip “Strictly Richter”

From Comics Kingdom, August 11, 2016, “Ask the Archivist: Strictly Richter” –a look at the late Mischa Richter’s long running strip.                       Here’s Mr. Richter’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”:     Mischa Richter (photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon) Born, Kharkov, Russia, 1910. Died, March 23,

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