Liza Donnelly’s Cartoon To The Editor (of The New York Times)
From The New York Times, June 12, 2019, Opinion Page. See Ms. Donnelly’s entire Cartoon to the Editor here.
Ms. Donnelly has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1982. Visit her website here.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Daily Cartoon
Peter Kuper on Trump’s secret deal with Mexico. Mr. Kuper has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1993. Visit his website here.
The New York Times Nurit Karlin Obit
From The New York Times, May 7, 2019, “Nurit Karlin, Who Found Her Voice In Wordless Cartoons, Dies At 80”
Above: Liza Donnelly, on the left, with Ms. Karlin in Tel Aviv in 2017. Far right: A Nurit Karlin self-portrait
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Cover Revealed For Liana Finck’s “Excuse Me”
Due September 24th from Random House Trade Paperbacks, Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, and Notes to Self promises to be a fun 416 page collection by Ms. Finck, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker in 2013.
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Article of Interest: Rowland B. Wilson
From the Art Contrarian, May 6, 2019, “The Carefully Observant Rowland B. Wilson” — this piece on Mr. Wilson who contributed 47 cartoons to The New Yorker from 1961 – 1981.
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Sempe Illustrated Story To Be Animated
From Cartoon Brew, May 6, 2019, “Goscinny and Sempe’s ‘Le Petit Nicholas’ to be Adapted as 2D Animated Film by On Entertainment”
Mr. Sempe began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978.
(a tip of the hat to Mike Lynch, whose social media post brought this piece to my attention).
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon
A Game Of Thrones coffee cup inspires today’s Daily cartoon (…by Avi Steinberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2012.
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From The New York Times, July 22, 2018, “My Left Hand vs. My Right Hand” — this Op-Ed piece by Liza Donnelly about breaking her right arm — the one with her drawing hand. Here’s an Ink Spill piece about it from last Fall.
Below: a tweet from Ms. Donnelly the day of the break.
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And speaking of Ms. Donnelly and cartoons, here’s her just posted newyorker.com piece about the upcoming exhibit, Funny Ladies at The New Yorker.
It includes a fab slide show of work by some of the artists in the show.
Link here for info about the exhibit at the Society of Illustrators
Peter Arno Singing & Playing Piano
Was very pleased to see one of Stanley Kubrick’s Arno photos make it into The New York Times review of the Kubrick photo exhibit. The reviewer, Arthur Lubow, had this to say about the photo:
A striking shot at the piano of Peter Arno, the New Yorker cartoonist and bon vivant, with eyes shut and mouth open, an ashtray holding down the sheet music, is composed with masterly precision.
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More From the Buchanan Files via Lynch
Dick Buchanan has reached into his extensive clip file for a fun bunch of cartoons from the 1930s. Most of these folks were published in The New Yorker, including Dorothy McKay whose drawing below appeared in Life magazine. See the rest here on Mike Lynch’s blog, posted May 3, 2018.
The other New Yorker cartoonists in the post: Gardner Rea, Gluyas Williams, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Charles Addams, Chon Day, Richard Decker, Ned Hilton, George Shellhase, Leonard Dove, Syd Hoff, Otto Soglow, and William Steig.
Below is Ms. McKay’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z:
Dorothy McKay ( Self portrait above from Meet the Artist, 1943; Photo from Cartoon Humor, 1938) Born c.1904, died June, 1974 New York City. New Yorker work: 1934 -1936.
If it’s Spring, it’s time for the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art’s annual fest, otherwise known as MoCCa Fest (it’s produced by The Society of Illustrators).
The two day event begins April 6th. Scheduled events include Roz Chast being interviewed by the Virtual Memories host, Gil Roth, a conversation with Liniers (and an exhibition of his work), and a Nancy panel discussion with Paul Karasik and friends. Link here to all the info.
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New York Times Robert Grossman Obit
Here’s the Times obit of Mr. Grossman written by Neil Genzlinger — it’s in today’s paper. Glad to see Mr. Genzlinger mentioned Mr. Grossman’s stint at the New Yorker as well as including The Yew Norker.
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Back in 2013 the Spill posted a map of Manhattan (“The New Yorker’s New York”) showing where various New Yorker folk once lived. Here’s another address I’ll eventually add to the map: 75 1/2 Bedford Street, otherwise known as the narrowest house in New York City. It was once the home of William Steig.
— My thanks to Gretchen Maslin for the info.
