Max and Simon, the mysterious duo behind Cartoon Companion have released this mission statement to Ink Spill: The Cartoon Companion — www.cartooncompanion.com — is a website devoted to the latest cartoons in The New Yorker magazine. With each new issue, your genial hosts, Max and Simon, offer their highly subjective insights and rate the cartoons on a scale of 1 (not worthy) to
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Interview of Interest: Liza Donnelly
From Live/Mint, December 1, 2016, “Funny Lady: The New Yorker’s cartoonist Liza Donnelly on Trump, feminist cartoons, how she works, and her favorite cartoonists” — this interview with Ms.Donnelly, who is in Delhi this week. Follow her live-tweet drawings she’s doing while there: @lizadonnelly [photo:
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Not all New Yorker cartoonists are New Yorker cover artists, and not all New Yorker cover artists are cartoonists. Once upon a time there was plenty of cross-pollination; these days, in a movement begun in Tina
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Jack Ziegler, recently referred to on this site as the Godfather of Contemporary New Yorker Cartoonists, has been contributing to the magazine since February of 1974. Now in 2016 he is solidly in the K Crowd — meaning he’s published well over a thousand cartoons and one cover in The New Yorker (we’ll get to the cover later). Considering that
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