Three Cartoon Collections I Never Heard Of..Til Now I know there are many stray cartoon collections out there I’ve never heard of — even after years and years of making it my business to know about such things. It’s always fun when one turns up. Today I became aware of three — highly unusual! Stranger still: they’re all linked together
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48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker This being the second week of a double issue week, there’s no new magazine art to study this rainy morn. As regular visitors to the Spill know, I occasionally do some time-traveling on these off-weeks, and look at an issue (usually selected at random) from the past. I wanted some small
Read moreAs mentioned here last week, it’s double issue time again. We’re halfway though it now ; only a week til the new issue (dated June 18, 2018) appears online early Monday morning. Just for fun I thought I’d go back to another June 18th issue — the one from 1984. Here’s the cover, by Susan Davis, who contributed fifteen covers
Read moreHere’s a fun way to end the week: browsing through all 14 of the Cartoonist Photo links on Mike Lynch’s blog. Part 14 is up today, with links to the other 13 parts following the post. There are a small number of New Yorker cartoonists throughout — here are just three: left to right:
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