Tom Toro: The Ink Spill Interview

New Yorker cartoonist, Tom Toro and I’ve been emailing now and then over the seven years he’s been contributing cartoons to the magazine, but it wasn’t until a month ago, when he came east from Kansas for Jack Ziegler’s memorial, that we finally met in person and were able to chat for awhile. The idea for an interview had been batted

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Color Work From Some Cartoon Greats; Audio: George Booth Talks Tools of the Trade

From Mike Lynch’s site, courtesy of Dick Buchanan, here’s a fun post of some color cartoon work from a variety of magazines. Included, among others, are New Yorker artists, William Steig, Garrett Price, Stan Hunt, William Von Riegen, Gahan Wilson, and Robert Day. See them all here!    _____________________________________________________________________________ Jane Mattimoe has posted two short audio clips of the great

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A Thurber Poster (and A Steig Poster & A Soglow Poster): Book of Interest: Wertz’s Tenements, Towers & Trash

The other day I Spilled a beautiful Peter Arno poster being auctioned by the Swann Galleries;  here are three more posters by three  great New Yorker artists:  James Thurber, Otto Soglow and William Steig. All took a turn  illustrating a poster for the Washington Square Art Show.  Thurber’s was for the 1935 exhibit, Soglow’s for 1930, and  Steig’s for 1933.

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