The New York Historical Society has an upcoming event, “Superheroes in Gotham” that includes, according the the website CBR, a Superman cartoon by Mort Gerberg. For more New Yorker Superman cartoons (and Batman) by a variety of the magazine’s artists go The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site and type in your preference in the search box. At last look,
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Book of Interest: The Complete Dick Tracy, Vol. 19: 1959 – 61
From time-to-time I momentarily take Ink Spill outside The New Yorker cartoon orbit — in this case a brief auto-biographical moment. As a kid I was deep into Batman and Superman comic books as well as the Dick Tracy newspaper comic strips. While they’ve never been all that obvious an influence on my own drawings in The New Yorker, they’re
Read moreBook of Interest: Masterful Marks / Cartoonists Who Changed the World
Coming out this September from Simon & Schuster, Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World by Monte Beauchamp (included are a Charles Addams bio by Marc Rosenthal and a Robert Crumb bio by Drew Friedman). From the publisher’s website:
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From newyorker.com, June 19, 2012, “Who Needs the Man of Steel?” —Jack Ziegler steps in this week for Bob Mankoff on the cartoon editor’s blog.
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