Fave Photos Of The Week This past Thursday, a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists hopped in a car and drove upstate to Rhinebeck, NY from the isle of Manhattan. Another cartoonist drove west from Connecticut, and yet another traveled east across the Hudson River from Woodstock. All of them settled down in a coffee shop for hours of cartoon merriment.
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Michael Updike Looks For A Cartoon Michael Updike contacted the Spill recently in search of a multi-panel New Yorker drawing, published in the 1970s, similar to the one (shown below) his father, John Updike, did for The Harvard Lampoon in the early 1950s. After a thorough search through The New Yorker’s database the only drawing I found that came
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Lincoln Center’s “A View Of The World” I came across this poster online today. My first thought was: geez, even Lincoln Center got in on the Steinberg “View Of The World” phenomenon. I then reread the pertinent passages from Deirdre Bair’s Saul Steinberg: A Biography to help jog my memory of the details surrounding Steinberg’s ultra-famous New Yorker cover; if
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New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen At The Reuben Awards Emma Allen, front and center, holding a box of cartoon submissions, appears on this promotional piece by Ed Steckley for the National Cartoonists Society 77th Reuben Awards. Ms. Allen will be part of a panel discussion, moderated by New Yorker
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