Here’s a little gem of a cartoon collection I found not long ago. Colliers had the very good habit of collecting cartoons that appeared in its pages. It’s A Gift!, published in 1947, includes work by New Yorker contributors John Ruge, Gardner Rea, Virgil Partch aka VIP, Hank Ketcham, Larry Reynolds, Garrett Price, and Barney Tobey. The editor, Gurney Williams,
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P.S. Mueller: Snatching Steinberg…and Thurber, Steig, Day, Soglow…
Continuing Ink Spill‘s series of New Yorker cartoonists talking about important cartoon connections in their lives is P.S. Mueller on discovering Steinberg’s work. Mr. Mueller has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. “1958 Zorro Meets Steinberg” and photograph courtesy of Mr. Mueller. 1958 Zorro Meets Steinberg In my adult mind I think of Saul Steinberg as an
Read moreLooking Ahead to 2013: New Books by Gahan Wilson, Pat Byrnes, VIP, Shannon Wheeler, and more
Too early to look ahead to cartoon books coming out in 2013? Nah! Looking through Amazon’s listings for next year, the first title I came upon that caught my eye: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch by Jon Baril (July 20, 2013, Fantagraphics). From the publisher: VIP: The Mad World of Virgil Partch is the first time Partch’s
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