New York Review of Books

The Wednesday Watch: Happy 96th, Dana Fradon!; Profile of Interest: George Booth; A Syd Hoff Selection; Hugette Martell in NY Review of Books; Chatfield Chats About Trump

May 9, 2018 michael News

Happy 96th Dana Fradon!

Very best birthday wishes to Mr. Fradon, our senior New Yorker cartoonist.

Above, a powerhouse quartet: three New Yorker cartoonists and their editor. Left to right: Charles Saxon, James Geraghty (the New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 – 1973), Dana Fradon, and Whitney Darrow, Jr. Westport, September, 1982. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon).

Mr. Fradon’s entry on the A-Z:

Dana Fradon Born, Chicago, Illinois, 1922. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago prior to service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Following his service, he attended the Art Students League of New York, NYer work: May 1, 1948 – . Collection: Insincerely Yours (Scribners, 1978) To read Ink Spill’s 2013 interview with Mr. Fradon, “Harold Ross’s Last Cartoonist” link here.

— many thanks to David Pomerantz for bringing Mr. Fradon’s birthday to our attention

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Profile: George Booth

From The Wall Street Journal, “Cartoonist George Booth and His Pet Projects” — this piece on one of the New Yorker‘s Cartoon Gods.

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Dick Buchanan (via Mike Lynch) on Syd Hoff

Dick Buchanan continues to provide us with cartoon clippings (via Mike Lynch’s blog). This week he’s selected a bundle of work by Syd Hoff. See it all here. (above: Hoff in True, July 1947)

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Of Interest: Growing Up In Wartime France by Huguette Martel

From the New York Review of Books, “Growing Up in Wartime France” by Huguette Martel, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1990.

For more on Ms. Martell see Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons; to see some of Ms. Martel’s New Yorker work go here.

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Audio: Jason Chatfield on Caricaturing Trump

From abc.net, May 8, 2018, “Aussie New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield on caricaturing Trump” — this short audio clip. Mr. Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in July of last year. Visit his website here: https://www.jasonchatfield.com/

Cuneo’s Klam Drawings; Sikoryak Illustrates Trumpisms; Finck Covers Closet and a Novel

July 22, 2017 michael News

Cuneo’s Klam Drawings

What fun! New Yorker cover artist and illustrator, John Cuneo, has supplied illustrations for Matthew Klam’s latest book, Who Is Rich?: A Novel ; what’s fun, besides Mr. Cuneo’s work — called “…darkly humorous…” in The Washington Post’s review of the book — is that the novel’s main character is a…cartoonist.

Here’s how the novel is described, in part, by the publisher:

Every summer, a once-sort-of-famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a week-long arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where, every year, students—nature poets and driftwood sculptors, widowed seniors, teenagers away from home for the first time—show up to study with an esteemed faculty made up of prizewinning playwrights, actors, and historians; drunkards and perverts; members of the cultural elite; unknown nobodies, midlist somebodies, and legitimate stars—a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional.

Above: drawings by John Cuneo from Who Is Rich? Link here to Mr. Cuneo’s website.

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Sikoryak Illustrates Trumpisms

Robert Sikoryak’s The Unquotable Trump (Drawn& Quarterly) was unveiled at Comic Con Diego. This is the third Trump-related title from a New Yorker contributor (Tom Toro’s Tiny Hands and Shannon Wheeler’s Sh*t My President Says are the other two).

Read about the CBR’s article on Mr. Sikoryak here.

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Finck Covers Closet

This interesting piece by Ms. Finck in The New York Review of Books

…and more Finck: this interview from Bedford +Bowery

left: one of Ms. Finck’s drawings from the NYR

…lastly, leaving off where this day’s post began, it has been brought to the Spill‘s attention that Ms. Finck is the cover artist behind Matthew Klam’s aforementioned novel.

A Glen Baxter Sampler; Comics Academic Karen Green Interviewed

August 28, 2016 michael News

The New York Review of Books takes a look at some of the work in Glen Baxter’s new book, Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings (published by New York Review Comics).

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For anyone interested in the who what where why and when of the ever expanding graphic novel collection at Columbia University this interview’s for you. Karen Green, a friend to all comic artists (and to Ink Spill), is the subject of a lengthy interview by Art Cloos on Scoop.

Tom Toro on Pencils…and More Spills

October 21, 2015 michael News

A Case For Pencils is visited by Tom Toro this week. Check it out!

Link here to Mr. Toro’s website.

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…Mike Lynch celebrates the 99th birthday of Virgil Partch aka VIP…

…Two pieces on The New York Review of Books new New York Review Comics, including titles by Abner Dean and Glen Baxter: TCJ’s coverage here…
and Heidi MacDonald’s coverage on The Beat…

…read a new interview with Liana Finck here…