The cartoonist (and Spill One Clubber*) Bud Grace has posted a short interesting piece about New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Steiner. Within the post is the painting Mr. Steiner did of Mr. Grace (an exhibit of Steiner’s portraits was held at the Hotchkiss School some years ago. It was a fun experience walking around looking at the paintings and then recognizing
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Spinach, Part 2 with Shanahan, Steiner, and Weber
As anyone who follows cartoon art knows, nearly everything and anything is fair game, including other cartoons. The famous Carl Rose “spinach” cartoon from the December 8, 1928 New Yorker (shown above) that was yesterday’s subject here (well, more precisely, its caption origin was the subject) spawned a number of later cartoons. Danny Shanahan gets the credit for causing me
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Between You & Me &…Eustace Tilley Here’s a fascinating addition to the Spill‘s archives: the Korean edition of Mary Norris‘s truly wonderful book, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. As you can see it sports Rea Irvin’s iconic cover from the New Yorker‘s inaugural issue. This usage of the cover is, to my knowledge, a first (Ms.
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Yet another Trumpian week for the Daily Cartoon. The participating cartoonists: Danny Shanahan, one of the magazine’s modern masters, appeared twice in the week, with his second a nod to the climbing racoon we all fell in love with; Lars Kenseth, whose one-of-a-kind drawings also appeared twice (neither was a racoon drawing, unfortunately), and Lisa Rothstein, possibly making her Daily debut
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