Tuesday Spill: TV Guide Holiday Covers From Ronald Searle, Andre Francois, And William Steig; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Over the weekend I showed you a Charles Saxon TV Guide Santa Cover. Here are a few more New Yorker artists who contributed TV Guide holiday covers. You can find these and so much more on this terrif resource, TV Guide Magazine: The Cover Archive.

Clockwise from upper left: Ronald Searle (Dec. 25, 1976); Andre Francois (Dec. 20, 1975); William Steig (Dec. 19, 1964)

 

The Spill’s A-Z entries for these three artists:

Ronald Searle  Born, Cambridge, England March 3, 1920. Died, December 30, 2011, Draguignan, France. Steven Heller, who wrote Searle’s obit for The New York Times (Jan 4, 2012) said Searle’s “outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor…” New Yorker work: 1969-1992.

 

Andre Francois (photo: 1978) Birth/death information from his New York Times obit of April 15, 2005: Born Andre Farkas, 1915, Timisoara. Died, April, 2005, Grisy-les-Platres, France.

Known primarily for his New Yorker covers, of which there were 54, he also contributed two illustrations (his illustration of May 7, 2001, accompanying an article on mussels was his last published piece in the New Yorker). He also contributed one drawing. It appeared in the issue of December 19, 1964. New Yorker work: 1963-2001.

 

William Steig Born in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 14, 1907, died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2003. In a New Yorker career that lasted well over half a century and a publishing history that contains more than a cart load of books, both children’s and otherwise, it’s impossible to sum up Steig’s influence here on Ink Spill. He was among the giants of the New Yorker cartoon world, along with James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, and Peter Arno. Lee Lorenz’s World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998) is an excellent way to begin exploring Steig’s life and work. New Yorker work: 1930 -2003.

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Monday’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Yesterday’s Daily cartoon: from Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020. Visit her website here.

 

Yesterday’s Daily Shouts was a duo effort from Ms. Zi, and Irving Ruan. See it here.