A reminder that long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Mort Gerberg will be speaking at The New School this evening. All the details here. Mr. Gerberg’s entry on Ink Spill’s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Mort Gerberg Born, March 11, 1931, New York, NY. NYer work: April 10, 1965 – . Co-edited, with Ron Wolin & Ed Fisher, The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five
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Jerry Dumas Profiled; Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Returns; Gerberg Talks Cartoons
From The Comics Journal, January 6, 2017, “Jerry Dumas, Cartoonist and Poet” — Mr. Dumas, who died this past November, is profiled by a comics writer, R.C. Harvey. Ink Spill’s notice of Jerry Dumas’s passing. ________________________________________________________________ Peter Steiner, author of the classic New Yorker cartoon, “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” has a new post on his Hopeless
Read moreCartoonists Gather for The New Yorker’s Holiday Party
Once or twice a year New Yorker cartoonists gather to do something other than show their work. Yesterday was one of those days — the annual holiday party (which includes all of the editorial staff, not just the artists). In years past the party has been mostly out-of house; this year
Read moreNewest Addition to Ink Spill’s Library: Comically Correct
Courtesy of Danny Shanahan, this promotional booklet (offered with new New Yorker subscriptions?) from 1995 has been added to Ink Spill‘s Library. Of the many promo booklets produced by The New Yorker I’d never seen this one until today. Shown are the cover, the introductory
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