HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWARD KOREN!
The Spill wishes the one-and-only Edward Koren a very happy 87th birthday!
Mr. Koren is The New Yorker‘s longest active contributing artist. His first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of May 26, 1962.
The Spill‘s interview with Ed Koren appeared earlier this year. Read it here.
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Coming in October of 2023, Roz Chast’s next book (via Bloomsbury): I Must Be Dreaming. Cover not available, nor any details other than what you see here (actually, one more detail: it’ll be 192 pages). Visit Ms. Chast’s website.
Ms. Chast’s book comes very close to sharing a title with Chon Day’s cartoon collection published in 1945.
Mr. Day’s A-Z entry: Chon Day (Photo from This Week anthology, 1954). Born April 6, 1907, Chatham, New Jersey; died January 1, 2000, Rhode Island. New Yorker work: 1931 – 1998. Collection: I Could Be Dreaming (Robert M. McBride & Co., 1945)
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Latest “Cartoon Pad” With Guests Drew Dernavich & Paul Nesja
Guesting on the latest Cartoon Pad: Drew Dernavich (bottom right) and Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast co-host, Paul Nesja (top right). The Pad hosts are Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw. Listen here.
The guests and hosts will certainly discuss this collaborative effort from Mr. Dernavich & Nesja Press:
Michael Shaw began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999; Drew Dernavich in 2002; Bob Eckstein in 2007.
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Mort Gerberg On Lee Lorenz, New Yorker cartoonist, former art editor and cartoon editor, who passed away last Thursday at age 90.
Lee Lorenz, the best cartoon editor I knew, gave joy to the world with his own great cartoons, his words and his jazz. In 2007, I edited a cartoon collection for Simon & Schuster entitled “Last Laughs,” inviting 25 cartoonists to join me in creating cartoons about aging and the Great Beyond and reacting to 8 questions. Lee’s cartoons were the funniest and best-drawn.
The photo of him playing his cornet conveys the passion he brought to all his creativity and the scene he drew in reply to my 8th question shows why he will be long-remembered; Lee’s laughs last.
–My thanks to Mort Gerberg for allowing his piece and the accompanying cartoon and photo to appear on the Spill.