From The Washington Post, October 15, 2020, “In A Sacred Place: How New Yorker Cartoonist Liza donnelly Came To Work In Norman Rockwell’s Studio” Ms. Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. Visit her website here. ______________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: J.A.K. From ABC News, “New Yorker Cartoonist Opens Up About His Struggles With OCD” Mr. K. began contributing to
Read more________________________________________________________________ It appears that this long-ago rejected cover painting is going to be a Spill Easter thing. ___________________________________________________________ An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism From The New Yorker and other Magazines, coming our way in July from Penguin/Random House. This from the publisher: A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists
Read more55 Years Ago Today The other day I mentioned that April 10th is the 55th anniversary of the publication of Mort Gerberg’s first New Yorker drawing (I Spilled the drawing published in that issue of April 10, 1965). It was, however, not the first drawing he sold to the magazine. His first sale appears above (quite a beginning!). It appeared
Read more___________________________________________________________________________________ An end of week list of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features, March 23-27, 2020 The Daily Cartoons: Bob Eckstein, Avi Steinberg, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Zoe Si, Maddie Dai. Daily Shouts: Paul Karasik, Olivia de Recat, Emily Flake. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook. See all of the above and more here. __________________________________________________________________________ GOAT Back! Should’ve mentioned the
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