A New Yorker State of Mind Enters 1929; Hoff Week Continues on Attempted Bloggery; More Spills with Charles Addams & Art Young

A New Yorker State of Mind Enters 1929 One of the Spill‘s favorite blogs has rounded the corner of 1928, and has entered 1929.  The issue above, with art by the incredible Rea Irvin, has always been a favorite.  Visit the blog here. Here’s Rea Irvin’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet

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The Tilley Watch; Attempted Bloggery on Buford Tune; An Art Young Retrospective

…The latest issue of The New Yorker (it’s a double, covering June 5th & June 12th) contains a debut cartoon by  Maddy Dai. Here’s her website. ___________________________________________________________________________________ After a bunch of fun posts about the cartoonist, William Von Riegen, Stephen Nadler at Attempted Bloggery has focused on yet another New Yorker cartoonist whose name might not be familiar to many

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Spiegelman on Art Young

From Harper’s issue of January 2016, To Laugh That We May Not Weep, this piece by Art Spiegelman on a nearly forgotten cartoonist, Art Young, who contributed to The New Yorker from 1925 through 1933. Also: be sure to take a look at The Art Young Gallery website. 

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Art Young Opening! Plus…The Spill’s Mid-Week Round-up: P.C. Vey, Kominsky-Crumb, Kupperman, Mankoff, Katchor, Sikoryak & Mouly; The New Yorker’s 5th issue Gets a Close Look

_______________________________________________________________________________________ P. C. Vey, whose April 15, 2013 New Yorker drawing appears here,  talks about his tools of the trade on A Case For Pencils. Go see! Link here to Mr. Vey’s website Link here to see some of his New Yorker work   _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art has announced its MoCCA Fest 2015 line-up. The

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