Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma AllenĀ (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Tuesday Spill: That Was Then, This Is Now

This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon  (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is

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Weekend Spill: Alan Dunn’s “New Yorker War Cartoons” Cover; Latest ToonStack; A Mini-Fisher Fest; Most Recent Addition To The Spill’s Cartoon Library

  Alan Dunn’s New Yorker War Cartoons Cover  Alan Dunn might be best remembered for his signature densely styled charcoal and grease pencil drawings that appeared for nearly a half-century in the New Yorker, from 1926 through 1974. Or he might be remembered as the most prolific New Yorker artist with the most published cartoons until William Steig overtook him

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