Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg; Video Of Interest: Al Hirschfeld; The Tilley Watch Online, February 14-18, 2022

    Article Of Interest: Mort Gerberg From Baruch College’s The Ticker, February 19, 2022, “Celebrating Ticker Alumni: Mort Gerberg”  A good catching-up piece about Mr. Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965.  He was the subject on an Ink Spill interview last year.   — above: Mort Gerberg, on the left, with George Booth.  ___________________________________________________________________ Video

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The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online; A Rea Irvin Album Cover

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features. The week of December 27-31, 2021 The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Emily Bernstein, Suerynn Lee, Mort Gerberg, Ellis Rosen. Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s Assistant Cartoon Editor) with Ella Quittner, Ali Fitzgerald.  Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Ringing In The New Year (On Zoom)”  _______________________________________________________

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Wednesday Spill: Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt. 2

Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Time to catch up with this week’s Daily Cartoonists & their cartoons: Monday’s Daily… from Ellis Rosen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Tuesday’s Daily…from Mort Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965. Wednesday’s Daily… from Sueryann Lee, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019.   __________________________________________________________________________ Personal

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Friday Spill: Krimstein’s Graphic Novel On Washington Post Best of 2021 List; Booth Film “Drawing Life” Makes Its Digital Premier On The New Yorker Live; Just Arrived: David Sipress’s Memoir…”What’s So Funny?”

Ken Krimstein’s Graphic Novel On Washington Post’s Best of 2021 List A hearty congrats to Ken Krimstein on his new book When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six Yiddish Teens being named one of The Washington Post‘s Best Graphic Novels of 2021. Related: From The Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2021: “What We’re Reading: When I Grow Up is

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