Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo) who reliably takes photos at cartoonist gatherings, sent in this wonderful photograph of the late Peter Porges. Felipe also added some thoughts on Mr. Porges and the late Stuart Leeds. Peter Porges I first met him at one of those cartoonists lunches. He had a grouchy expression that all of a sudden transformed into a comical
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So Long, 2016. Howdy, 2017
Geez, what a year. I’ve spent this morning looking back through Ink Spill’s 2016 posts. This was the year we lost more New Yorker cartoonist colleagues than in any previous twelve month period in the magazine’s history: William Hamilton, John Caldwell, Gerald Dumas, Michael Crawford, Anatol Kovarsky, Frank Modell, Robert Weber, and Peter Porges. Their combined published work in
Read morePeter Porges, New Yorker & MAD Graphic Raconteur, Has Died.
Peter Porges, who began his New Yorker career in the summer of 1965 (his first drawing in the magazine appears above) died this week at age 89. Mr. Porges was perhaps more widely known as a MAD artist (one of its famed Usual Gang of Idiots), but his New
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