Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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Wednesday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A 1945 Helen Hokinson Drawing
Latest Addition to The Spill Collection: A 1945 Hokinson It’s rare I post about additions to the Spill‘s collection of original work by New Yorker artists. The latest piece to arrive has caused me to break that semi-tradition. I saw the drawing on Ebay a few weeks ago (my attention drawn to it by a friend who also scouts the
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Thurber Thursday: My Last “Last Flower”; Drew Dernavich Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Launch Of Note: Hilary Campbell’s Murder Book; Daily Shouts Cartoonist & Daily Cartoon Cartoonist
Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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Weekend Spill: Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest…Edward Koren At The Peabody Essex Museum; Article Of Interest: Zach Kanin; Latest ToonStack…”Deep Dark Droll Fears”; The Tilley Watch Online, September 27 – October 1, 2021
Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest: Edward Koren We’ll have to wait til March of 2022 to see “Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but it’ll be worth it. All the information here. Edward Koren’s A-Z Spill entry: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work:
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