Fifty Years Earlier
As a cartoonist it’s (mostly) all about what’s next; this may explain why I sometimes like to take a breather and think about what was. Still in a celebratory mode because of The New Yorker’s 86th...
View ArticleBob Mankoff: The Perfect Cartoon
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View ArticleP.S. Mueller: Snatching Steinberg…and Thurber, Steig, Day, Soglow…
Continuing Ink Spill‘s series of New Yorker cartoonists talking about important cartoon connections in their lives is P.S. Mueller on discovering Steinberg’s work. Mr. Mueller has been contributing to...
View ArticleHarold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want...
View ArticleNew Jersey’s New Yorkers…an Ink Spill Map
Here’s a look at Garden State born New Yorker contributors (including its current editor) as well as New Yorker contributors (all cartoonists) not Jersey born, but currently living there. Also...
View ArticleA Reminder: There’s A Mary Petty Exhibit Happening in Pensacola
I was reminded today while reading an article that there is right this very moment an exhibit of Mary Petty’s work at the Pensacola Museum of Art. Here’s a link. Shown here is my favorite cover of hers...
View ArticleThe Ink Spill Jack Ziegler Interview
Jack Ziegler, recently referred to on this site as the Godfather of Contemporary New Yorker Cartoonists, has been contributing to the magazine since February of 1974. Now in 2016 he is solidly in the...
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