A Fave Photo From the Ink Spill Vault

    Here’s a photo taken back in 2005 at the old Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) headquarters on Broadway in Soho (MoCCA now resides within the walls of The Society of Illustrators). Left to right: Gahan Wilson, Roz Chast, Barbara Smaller, P.C. Vey, Liza Donnelly, and Jack Ziegler   Note: Barbara Smaller, Liana Finck and Marisa Acocella

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A Zap Retrospective at The Society of Illustrators

“The ZAP Show: A Cultural Revolution” is now up at The Society of Illustrators (and runs through May 7, 2016).  All the details here. From the website: No one could have known that when struggling illustrator R. Crumb self-published Zap Comix #1 in 1968 and began hawking copies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, history would be made.  

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Harry Bliss to Speak; Forgotten Caricaturists

                  From The Vermont Standard, April 23, 2015, “Cartoonist Harry Bliss to Speak at Library Gala” Here’s a link to his website, and here’s a link to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Bank site where you’ll find more examples of his work.   ___________________________________________________________________________________                  

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