Weekend Spill: Happy Halloween!: An Ink Spill Interview Compendium; The Tilley Watch Online, October 25-29, 2021; Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery

                             

                          Happy Halloween!

If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween. Hey, what can I say: I like cupcakes, and I like the little toy-like things bakers (sometimes) stick into them.

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An Ink Spill Interview Compendium

I thought what better way to spend this dreary Halloween morning than listing all the Ink Spill interviews (both long and not so long) I could think of posted over the years. It was fun looking back through these. I hope you’ll have some fun too. 

Jack Ziegler: “The Ink Spill Interview Part 1” and Part 2 …October 2016

Edward Frascino: “Celebrating New Yorker Cartoonist Edward Frascino’s 90th Birthday: The Ink Spill Interview” …November 2020

Michael Crawford:  The New Yorker, Baseball, And The Mob: Catching Up With Michael Crawford”…December 2013

Dana Fradon: “Harold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon” …November 2013

Bob Eckstein: “Bob Eckstein Talks To Ink Spill About His 3-D Thanksgiving Cartoon In This Week’s New Yorker”...November 2012

Emily Flake: “Checking In: The Spill Talks Pies And Target Practice With Emily Flake”…July 2017

James Stevenson: “James Stevenson’s Secret Job At The New Yorker” …May 2013

Robert Leighton: “Anatomy Of A Cartoon: Robert Leighton On His Escher Cartoon In This Week’s New Yorker” …January 2013

Lars Kenseth: “Checking In: Lars Kenseth Talks About ‘Deodorant People’ And His First New Yorker Cartoon”…August 2017

Roz Chast: “Catching Up With…Roz Chast” …December 2013

Frank Cotham: “It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…Catching Up With The New Yorker’s Frank Cotham”…December 2013

Seth Fleishman: “The Spill Talks Mirror Balls And Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman” …November 2017

P.C. Vey: “P.C. Vey Talks About Walking A Cat On A Leash, The Spatial Dynamics Of Cubicles, Meeting Jack Ziegler, Stevens And Mankoff, And A Bunch Of Other Stuff”…January 2014.

Arnold Roth: “Updike & Roth (John & Arnold)…And Henry Bech”…November 2016

Mort Gerberg: “The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg”…October 2021

Bill Woodman: “Funny Drawings Beautifully Drawn: An Ink Spill Interview With Bill Woodman” …September 2016

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The Tilley Watch Online, October 25 – 29, 2021

An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features

The Daily Cartoon: Jon Adams, Mick Stevens, Leise Hook (with Mary Camille Beckman), Ellis Rosen, J.A.K..

Daily Shouts: The New Yorker‘s assistant cartoon editor, Colin Stokes with Ellis Rosen, Ali Fitzgerald.

…and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Gaba-Ghoul: Several Questionable Halloween Puns”  

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Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery

Taking its customary deep dive, A New Yorker State Of Mind takes us back (and into) the issue of  September 3, 1932.

What a spectacular cover by Ilonka Karasz! Here’s Ms. Karasaz’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z:

Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New York, May 26, 1981. New Yorker work: Ms. Karasz was a prolific New Yorker cover artist, with 185 published. Her first appeared on the issue of April 4, 1925; her last appeared on the issue of October 22, 1973. Her Wikipedia entry

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 Attempted Bloggery carries on doing what it does best: keeping us informed of New Yorker pieces at auction or auctioned. 

In this latest post, appropriately enough for Halloween, Stephen Nadler (who runs AB) looks at a Gahan Wilson print. Go here to see the post and the entire Wilson print. 

Gahan Wilson’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z:

Gahan Wilson (photo by Michael Maslin, taken at The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, NYC, 2008) Born (“dead)”, Evanston, Illinois, February 13, 1930. Died, November 21, 2019, Scottsdale, Arizona. New Yorker work: 1976 – . Link to Mr. Wilson’s website here.