Ivan Ehlers Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Ehlers began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2021. View his Instagram. Above, clockwise, from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Ivan Ehlers, and Vin Coca. Listen here to Episode #113 ____________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Recent Auctioned Arno Attempted Bloggery reports on this terrific Peter Arno drawing
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The Blank Piece Of Paper Awaits One of the constants here every morning at Spill headquarters (besides the sun rising) is the site you see above that greets me at my desk (it’s really not a desk — it’s a table): a blank piece of paper, along with my Rapidograph. The small stack of paper rests on a 1964 edition
Read moreDavid Langdon’s “Langdon At Large” Was much fun to find the above scan of David Langdon’s 1958 collection, Langdon At Large awaiting in my inbox this morning, courtesy of Warren Bernard, the executive director of SPX (and author of the terrific, Cartoons For Victory). Mr. Bernard excels at digging up cartoon surprises. Until ten minutes ago I’d never seen the
Read moreIt’s more than fair to say no one drew like George Price. His work looks like a cartoon schematic. And then there are those somewhat mysterious split lines. Looking at one of his original drawings up real close you can see that the splits were created by his drawing over and over (and over) his original pen stroke. He’d build
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