The ToonStack Gift Guide
ToonStack is a Substack-based group of (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists who spotlight a weekly theme collection of their work. This week they offer up a holiday gift guide. See it here
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Reminder: A West Coast Reception And Panel Discussion
A fun group of New Yorker cartoonists who live on the west coast will gather at a reception on December 12 for something called The West Coaster: New Yorker Cartoons From The Other Side! Details here.
The Spill previously mentioned one section of the Cartoon Art Museum’s online text for the exhibit that I disagree with: I’ll repost my issue with the wording here:
Advantage, East Coast Cartoonists? Nah.
San Fran’s Cartoon Art Museum’s website copy contains a creative historical interpretation of pre-digital age west coast vs east coast New Yorker cartoonist contributors:
“…New Yorker artists based in and around Manhattan or nearby Connecticut had a distinct advantage over their peers as they could visit the office each Tuesday to deliver a new batch of rough sketches to the submissions editor, who would spend the week poring over them, then making a final decision by Friday as to which cartoons had made the cut and would be developed for the next issue, giving the east coasters a leg up on the competition when it came to securing a coveted spot in the pages of the celebrated magazine.”
I lightheartedly disagree that geography played any part, whatsoever, in the pre-digital age, and that East coast cartoonists had a “distinct advantage” and a “leg up” on the west coasters. The actual number of east coast cartoonists who came in to the office on a regular basis on Tuesdays was, percentage-wise, quite small. East coast cartoonists who elected not to go in to show their work to the art editor, Lee Lorenz, mailed-in their batches, via US mail, to arrive in time to be considered.