Until modern times*, it wasn’t that often we’d see one cartoonist reference another cartoonist’s work. Here’s an example from (I’m guessing) 1947, when Hollywood turned out the Danny Kaye film of Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. In this case, the cartoonist referencing another was Robert Kraus, a New Yorker colleague of Thurber’s… but the drawing did not appear
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing…Robert Kraus A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last To begin with, here’s the Spill‘s Robert Kraus A-Z entry. Robert Kraus Born June 21, 1925, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died, Kent, Connecticut, 2001. In 1966 he founded Windmill Books, which published children’s books by such New Yorker artists
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Shellhase And Kraus On Attempted Bloggery A Spill fave, Attempted Bloggery discusses two original drawings by two New Yorker artists that rarely get the spotlight these days. Go here to see the Shellhase post and here to see the Kraus post. More: Shellhase and
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