Interview of Interest: Sophie Lucido Johnson From Inside Hook, January 10, 2023, “Sophie Lucido Johnson Writes (and Draws) About Parenting and Polyamory) Better Than Anyone” — a short interview with the writer/artist who began contributing (most often as part of a duo) to The New Yorker in 2020. –drawing (from the article): Sophie Lucido Johnson _______________________________________________________________ A Photo
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Wednesday Spill: In Praise Of Robert Weber’s Art; Hilary Campbell’s Book Event & Gallery Show; New Book: Pat Achilles’s “Zeitgeist Meetup”
In Praise Of Robert Weber’s Art I began my usual daily online search this rainy chilly morning to see what New Yorker cartoonist news had come in during the past 24 hours. What showed up — what always shows up — was a mixed bag: old news that’s somehow considered new, new posts that are new, fringy stuff, and occasionally
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Tuesday Spill: Latest Addition To the Spill Library: The American Cartoon Album
Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview
Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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