Long-time New Yorker artist, Victoria Roberts has sent the below piece this way. My thanks to her for sharing it with Spill readers. “Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty died on April 6th, aged 93. His work graced the pages of Punch and The New Yorker, and he won an Academy Award for his film “Leisure” in 1977. But what I will
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest: Victoria Roberts This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast guest is the terrif Victoria Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. Listen here. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly On Live-Drawing “Succession” From Medium, December 14, 2021, “Drawing Horrible People” — long-time New Yorker contributor Liza Donnelly (her first New Yorker
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________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the
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