Article Of Interest: Edward Koren Ohio Exhibit
From The Lantern, January 10, 2025, “Billy Ireland Cartoon Library And Museum Honors Edward Koren With Commemorative Exhibition”
Edward Koren’s A-Z entry:
Edward Koren Born, 1935, New York City. Died, April 14, 2023, Brookfield, Vermont. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980), Caution: Small Ensembles (Pantheon, 1983), What About Me? (Pantheon Books, 1989). The Ink Spill Edward Koren Interview
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The Tilley Watch Online, January 6-10, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Zoe Si, Emily Flake, Bob Eckstein, Elisabeth McNair, Robert Leighton.
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library…Two Steinberg Books
I’ve been on a Steinberg kick recently. I never know why these surges of interest happen — they just do (in this case it’s ever so slightly possibly tied to the reissue of Steinberg’s All In Line).
I came across this German collection a few weeks ago. It’s a small thin 5″ x 7.5″ hardcover book, printed on good paper. The title seems to be, simply, Steinberg.
There are plenty of familiar Steinberg drawings within, plus a few new to me (or possibly new: I’ve seen so many of his drawings lately that some of them, visually in my brain, are beginning to merge).
I still wrestle with my thinking about Steinberg’s work — specifically, what it means to me as I look at it. Revisiting it again, and again, might just sort things out (or not).
Another book I added to the library recently is Reflections and Shadows, a book of Steinberg’s own words as recorded by his friend Aldo Buzzi between 1974 and 1977.
Like The German book above, it’s small, 5.25″ x 8″ with slightly more pages than the book of drawings. Any cartoonist (or anyone interested in cartoons) will likely find Steinberg’s writing about coming up with ideas fascinating. Here’s a snippet:
“Once I’ve found the idea, or rather the vein, I feel, oddly enough, that the idea is not new to me. It’s as though, digging in an archaeological site, I found something that was logically there…”
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Steinberg’s A-Z Entry:
Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker work: 1941 – (The New Yorker publishes his work posthumously). Steinberg is one of the giants of The New Yorker. Go here to visit the saulsteinbergfoundation where you’ll find much essential information and examples of his work.
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Art Students League Instagram Post Of Interest…Otto Soglow
A brief fun post by The Arts Student League about New Yorker contributor, and once ASL student, Otto Soglow.
Otto Soglow’s A-Z Entry:
Otto Soglow Born, Yorkville, NY, December 23, 1900. Died in NYC, April 1975. New Yorker work: 1925 -1974.Key collections: Pretty Pictures ( Farrar & Rinehart, 1931) and for fans of Soglow’s Little King; The Little King (Farrar & Rinehart, 1933) and The Little King ( John Martin’s House, Inc., 1945). The latter Little King is an illustrated storybook. Cartoon Monarch / Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW, 2012) is an excellent compendium.