At 3 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon in late June, my wife and I, wearing our cartoonist historian hats, were welcomed into an apartment in a pre-war building along Manhattan’s west side. We made our way through a short hallway to a foyer lined with paintings. There were paintings on the walls, and paintings lined
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Niculae Asciu, New Yorker Cover Artist & Cartoonist, Dies at Age 70
The long time illustrator for The New York Times, Niculae Asciu has died at age 70. Mr Asciu was also a New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist, contributing 3 covers and 23 cartoons over sixteen years, from 1974 thru 1990. Mr. Asciu was that rare cartoonist whose work, like his contemporary Nurit Karlin, was mostly captionless if not entirely wordless
Read moreDanny Shanahan: The Ink Spill Interview
Danny Shanahan, Rhinebeck, NY, January 2013 (Photo by Michael Maslin) This year Danny Shanahan celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first contribution to The New Yorker (the issue of September 19, 1988). He’s in that small group of the magazine’s cartoonists who’ve done just about everything that can be done in The New Yorker, cartoon-wise: spreads, single panel cartoons,
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