Arnold Roth With Johnny Carson…Jack Ziegler With David Letterman...Bruce McCall With David Letterman
Arnie Roth, who just turned 93, waaaay back in 1981 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
And here’s the great Jack Ziegler with David Letterman in June of 1983:
…and Bruce McCall in one of his several appearances with David Letterman (December, 1982)
The A-Z Spill Entries for the above artists:
Arnold Roth Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1929. New Yorker work: November 16, 1992 –. Mr. Roth’s career is long and storied, his work associated with a number of magazines including Playboy, Esquire, TIME, and Punch. Read all about it on his website: www.arnoldroth.com/
Jack Ziegler (photo above, by Michael Maslin, taken at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, NYC, 2008) Born, Brooklyn, NY July 13, 1942. Died, March 29, 2017. New Yorker work: 1974 – 2017. Key collections: all of Ziegler’s collections are must-haves. Here’re some favorites: Hamburger Madness (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), Filthy Little Things ( Doubleday/Dolphin, 1981) and The Essential Jack Ziegler, Complied and Edited by Lee Lorenz ( Workman, 2000). Link here for Ink Spill’s Jack Ziegler interview from late 2016.
Bruce McCall Born, 1935, Canada. Mr. McCall is primarily a cover artist for the magazine, with further contributions to the magazine’s “Shouts & Murmurs.” According to The New Yorker’s database, his first contribution was a piece of fiction, “Browsing,” in the issue of March 10, 1980.
I had Bruce’s Zany Afternoons book when I was younger, but I think I let someone borrow it and never got it back. Just ordered a rrplacementvcopy off of Amazon. I loved that book!
My favorite Ziegler cartoon had this caption: “IN HINDSIGHT, I SUPPOSE, THE NUMBER OF MEDICAL-SCHOOL DIPLOMAS ON THE WALLS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RED FLAG.” The drawing depicts a lone man watching a doctor enter the waiting room with a saw in his hand. Brilliant.