Thurber Thursday: “One Of The Most Original And Eccentric American Artists…”; Article Of Interest: Robert Kraus & Jose Aruego

________________________________________________________________ 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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The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg

                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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Tuesday Spill: Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!); Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly, Troublemaker; Michael Shaw & Bob Eckstein’s Latest Cartoon Pad

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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