More Bill Lee In a follow-up to Steven Heller’s blog post of a couple of days ago, D.D. Degg over on The Daily Cartoonist fills in more Bill Lee puzzle pieces, but still no answer to “Whatever Happened To…Bill Lee?” (My own interactions with Mr. Lee began and ended in the late 1970s after he, in his role as OMNI‘s
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Whence Bill Lee? From Print Magazine, April 11, 2022, Steven Heller’s The Daily Heller, “When Art Is Garbage.” — Mr. Heller looks at a trove of work by the cartoonist Bill Lee that was once headed for a dumpster. Bill Lee first contributed to The New Yorker in 1974. ______________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Jake Goldwasser From Literary
Read moreTributes and obits for Robert Grossman, who passed away last week, are now appearing online. I’ve gathered a few here while also showing you Mr. Grossman’s second New Yorker drawing, published December 14, 1963. It’s interesting (to me) that when Mr. Grossman’s association with the New Yorker is mentioned, it is as an assistant to James Geraghty, then the magazine’s
Read moreFrom The Vermont Standard, April 23, 2015, “Cartoonist Harry Bliss to Speak at Library Gala” Here’s a link to his website, and here’s a link to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Bank site where you’ll find more examples of his work. ___________________________________________________________________________________
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