Continuing Ink Spill‘s series of New Yorker cartoonists talking about important cartoon connections in their lives is P.S. Mueller on discovering Steinberg’s work. Mr. Mueller has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. “1958 Zorro Meets Steinberg” and photograph courtesy of Mr. Mueller. 1958 Zorro Meets Steinberg In my adult mind I think of Saul Steinberg as an
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Must see video: Steinberg
This fascinating video on YouTube: “Saul Steinberg Talks (1967)” wherein Steinberg, clad for most of the 26 minute interview in madras shorts and polo shirt, talks about art and artists (“Most artists are runaways”), cats (“The cat is known to be anti-social”), and dogs and life (“There is no moment when one is alone”).
Read moreAnatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years
At 3 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon in late June, my wife and I, wearing our cartoonist historian hats, were welcomed into an apartment in a pre-war building along Manhattan’s west side. We made our way through a short hallway to a foyer lined with paintings. There were paintings on the walls, and paintings lined
Read moreFelipe Galindo on Falling Into Steinberg’s Orbit; Rea Irvin, Costumed
The other day I was engaged in an email exchange with long time New Yorker cartoonist Felipe Galindo (he uses the pen name “Feggo”) about Iain Topliss’s Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams and Saul Steinberg; more specifically, we were discussing the section devoted to Steinberg. After Felipe explained what an impact Steinberg’s work
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