Thurber Thursday Above are all the (specifically) Thurber reference books in the Spill cartoon library. Thurber of course makes appearances in numerous New Yorker-centric books, such as Ross And The New Yorker; Genius In Disguise; Ross, The New Yorker & Me, etc., etc.), but these are the core group examining Thurber’s life. Of the above, I use three on a
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Comics Journal Of Interest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Comics Journal Of Interest The Summer-Fall Comics Journal features a “Career-Spanning” interview with Gary Groth (founder and President of Fantagraphics Books). Read a little more here. Roz Chast’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Roz Chast (pictured above. Photo by Bill Franzen) Born, Brooklyn, NY. New Yorker work: 1978 – . Key collections: Unscientific Americans (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1982), Theories of Everything
Read more55 Years Ago Today; A Timely 1960 Frank Modell Cartoon; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; A Cartoonist At The Culture Desk; The Passing of Mad’s Mort Drucker
55 Years Ago Today The other day I mentioned that April 10th is the 55th anniversary of the publication of Mort Gerberg’s first New Yorker drawing (I Spilled the drawing published in that issue of April 10, 1965). It was, however, not the first drawing he sold to the magazine. His first sale appears above (quite a beginning!). It appeared
Read morePersonal History: Sketchbooks; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
In 1972 or 1973, several years before my work was first accepted into The New Yorker, I began drawing in the black sketchbooks you see above. At the time it seemed like a good idea, and it remained a good idea until the late 1970s, when having arrived at Sketchbook #73 (yes, I numbered them), I suddenly stopped. The reason
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