Courtesy of Danny Shanahan, this promotional booklet (offered with new New Yorker subscriptions?) from 1995 has been added to Ink Spill‘s Library. Of the many promo booklets produced by The New Yorker I’d never seen this one until today. Shown are the cover, the introductory
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William Hamilton’s Life on the Farm; Gil Roth Interviews Ben Katchor (again); Ken Krimstein to Bare All; A Case For Pencils’ Bill Kartalopoulos Interview
From The Lexington Herald Leader, October 28, 2016, “Who Knew Famous New Yorker Cartoonist Lampooned City Life From a Kentucky Farm?”— this piece about the late great William Hamilton. (Above: A Collection of Mr. Hamilton’s cartoons from 1977) _______________________________________________________________________________ Here’s Gil Roth’s latest Virtual Memories podcast…this time
Read moreThe Ink Spill Jack Ziegler Interview
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
Read moreFifty Years Ago this week in The New Yorker…the Cartoons & Cartoonists
From time-to-time Ink Spill looks way way back at The New Yorker’s cartoon universe. Today, we’ll drop in on the issue dated fifty years ago, July 30, 1966 and take a brief look around at the cartoons and cartoonists within. In 1966, William Shawn was in his 14th year as editor of The New Yorker; the Art Editor, James Geraghty,
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