Max and Simon, the mysterious duo behind Cartoon Companion have released this mission statement to Ink Spill: The Cartoon Companion — www.cartooncompanion.com — is a website devoted to the latest cartoons in The New Yorker magazine. With each new issue, your genial hosts, Max and Simon, offer their highly subjective insights and rate the cartoons on a scale of 1 (not worthy) to
Read moreTag: Peter Arno
Cartoonist David Sipress on Staying Sane in Trumpland; Attempted Bloggery Looks at Tomato Juice Ads by Thurber, Arno, Steig, Hoff, and Soglow; Cartoon Companion Rates the New Yorker’s Latest Cartoons; Preview: New Yorker’s 92nd Anniversary Issue Cover
Post of Interest: David Sipress’s Cultural Comment on newyorker.com, February 3, 2017: “How To Stay Sane As A Cartoonist in Trumpland” See Mr. Sipress’s New Yorker work here on the magazine’s Cartoon Bank site. __________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery updates a post looking into Libby Tomato Juice ads featuring some of the all-time great New Yorker cartoonists. See it all
Read moreAn Arno Inspired Play Comes Back to NYC
On Broadway in 1930 (the original program appears above), this Peter Arno inspired musical returns for a short run in March. Here’s the description from the New York Theatre Guide: NEW YORKERS, THE A Sociological Musical Satire Music & Lyrics by
Read moreIt Was 113 Years Ago Today…
January 8th of any year can’t pass by around these parts without raising a glass to toast Peter Arno, born in New York City, 113 years ago today. Visitors to this site are likely quite aware of Arno’s work and what it meant to the struggling New Yorker in its first year of publication. Today I offer up another toast:
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