First & Last…Mary Petty A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last Though Mary Petty’s celebrated New Yorker career lasted nearly forty years, the number of cartoons she contributed was relatively low: 219 (she also contributed 38 covers, many of them among the best covers the magazine
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Daily Shouts Today’s Daily Shouts: from the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, “So You Want To Be A New Yorker Cartoonist”* it features drawings by Evan Lian (who did the caricature of Ms. Allen you see here), Hilary Campbell, J.A.K., Victor Varnado, Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Kendra Allenby, Ellis Rosen, and Navied Mahdavian. *the ‘So’ part of the piece’s title
Read moreWork by the late Aaron Bacall (he died in June of 2015) is on display now til the end of May at The Jewish Community Center of Staten Island. Here’s a video news piece on the exhibit. Mr. Bacall, who supplied his self-portrait to this site a few years ago, is a distinguished member of Ink Spill‘s One Club.
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