________________________________________________________________ This is a book I bought so long ago I’ve no memory of where or when I picked it up. I do know I paid two bucks for it thanks to the helpful pencil marking on the inside. I have a very vague memory of almost not buying it because Thurber wasn’t on the cover. Part of an extensive
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!) Friend of the Spill, David Pomerantz has sent in this outta-the-blue-never-woulda- believed-it-in-a-million-years story about a 1962 homemade horror film by New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Kraus, starring, of all people, Lee Lorenz. Link here for the full story (with more photos) in Famous Monsters magazine (the story begins on page 58). —My
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: a mid-August moment from Gayle Kabaker The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There are two duos in this issue…that we know of). No newbies. The Cartoons: Jason Katzenstein’s snail drawing
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