New Yorker contributors Ben Katchor, Glen Baxter, Emily Flake and yours truly will be part of the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. Here’s a link to the festival’s website. When there’s further info on the events attached to these folks I’ll post links* *for starters, here are the details of my participation: 12:00pm Brooklyn Historical Society Auditorium (128 Pierrepont St)
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Fifty Years Ago this week in The New Yorker…the Cartoons & Cartoonists
From time-to-time Ink Spill looks way way back at The New Yorker’s cartoon universe. Today, we’ll drop in on the issue dated fifty years ago, July 30, 1966 and take a brief look around at the cartoons and cartoonists within. In 1966, William Shawn was in his 14th year as editor of The New Yorker; the Art Editor, James Geraghty,
Read more“Ideas For the Pictures”: Gag Writer Helene Parsons Speaks
Sitting around a dinner table last night with three other New Yorker cartoonists, I mentioned I was working on an interview with a gag writer. Although none of us were gag writers or had ever used the services of gag writers, I was aware of the novelty of the situation: three out of four of us
Read moreFavorite New Addition to Ink Spill’s New Yorker Cartoonists Library
Danny Shanahan has been exceptionally generous to Ink Spill’s archives over the years, donating cartoon books and objects d’cartoons. This afternoon, while he and I sat in a coffee shop talking shop, he handed over a pile of paperbacks (pictured at the bottom of this post). There are several gems in that pile, but the one I’ve focused
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