Thurber Original Drawings At The Library Of Congress & Smith Last Thursday, the Spill noted Vassar’s two Thurber original drawings. In the days since, comics scholar, editor of ComicsDC, and good friend of the Spill, Mike Rhode, alerted me to the Thurber originals in The Library of
Read moreEarlier this year when I ran into my New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Ken Krimstein, one of the first things we talked about was the Steinberg exhibit that had opened in Ken’s hometown, Chicago. I thought it would be interesting to hear what a New Yorker cartoonist thought of the show and Ken graciously agreed to review the exhibit for
Read moreFrom The New York Review of Books, May 26, 2017, “Saul Steinberg’s View of the World” — this review of the Steinberg exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Along the Lines: Selected Drawings by Saul Steinberg.” A highlight from Ware’s review : “As a cartoonist myself, I am dismayed that there’s little in the show I can steal…”
Read moreFrom Forward.com, “Better Call Saul Steinberg” — this look at the exhibit of the master’s work in Chicago. [to the left: a fragment of Steinberg’s “Untitled (Las Vegas) (1989)”]
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