In last night’s installment of 60 Minutes, Morley Safer & Company brought us “The Cartoonist” — a look at the weekly selection process for New Yorker cartoons, a glimpse of some of the cartoonists who show up at the magazine’s office every Tuesday, a peek at Editor David Remnick choosing which cartoons to buy, and a min-profile of the magazine’s
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New New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt.3: Charlie Hankin
This is third part of an Ink Spill series looking at newer New Yorker cartoonists. I asked three of the most recent additions to the magazine’s stable of artists to tell us a little about themselves and how it was they ended up at The New Yorker (previously we heard from Liana Finck and Edward Steed). The series wraps up
Read moreAn Ink Spill Library Addition
Donald Ogden Stewart. Father William. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Here’s a book that was on my want list for some time (due to the cover by Peter Arno). It’s finally
Read moreJoe Dator on Drawing Creepy Cat Faces, Cartoon Rubber Ducks and Much Much More
(Above: a detail from Joe Dator’s “How We Do It” — it appeared in The New Yorker, September 24, 2012) Each New Yorker cartoonist brings something different to the pages of the magazine – it’s sort of an unofficial requirement for arriving. Some are more
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