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New Yorker Artist Anatol Kovarsky Has Died At Age 97
The sad news arrived here this morning that the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky died this week. He was 97. In his honor I’m re-posting the piece, in now slightly edited form, about Mr....
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Evergreens
The past three months we’ve lost three giants in the New Yorker Cartoonists constellation: William Hamilton in April, Frank Modell in May and Anatol Kovarsky in June. Together they...
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George Booth: An Ink Spill Appreciation
Attempted Bloggery has been focusing on George Booth this past week (including a close look at the drawing shown here), and why not? Mr. Booth turned 90 the other day; what better time to sing his...
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Fifty Years Ago this week in The New Yorker…the Cartoons & Cartoonists
From time-to-time Ink Spill looks way way back at The New Yorker’s cartoon universe. Today, we’ll drop in on the issue dated fifty years ago, July 30, 1966 and take a brief look around at the cartoons...
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Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Ink Spill Podcast
From the Department of Self-Promotion: Gil Roth (shown standing in our kitchen last week) has an awful lot of cartoonists on his podcast,Virtual Memories. He visited recently to tape two more (with...
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Frank Modell Celebrated
Cartoonists mostly live solitary work lives. When they’ve finished a drawing, sit back and take a look at it, the feedback usually comes from within; then there’s the occasional laugh from their...
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It Was 113 Years Ago Today…
January 8th of any year can’t pass by around these parts without raising a glass to toast Peter Arno, born in New York City, 113 years ago today. Visitors to this site are likely quite aware of Arno’s...
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Being Eustace Tilley; Roger Angell Remembers James Stevenson; Oscar Time!...
Eustace Tilley is of course a fictional character — commonly referred to as The New Yorker‘s mascot. There is a suggested backstory to Tilley himself in Lee Lorenz’s Art of The New Yorker:...
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Steig Covers Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker
A few days ago I took a look at Charles Addams’s original cover for Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker (Random House, 1975). Today I’m adding...
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“The Place Was Especially A Mess After The Weekly Art Meetings”
… “The artists, who waited for the verdicts, scrambled for desk space where they could retouch their cartoons and spots according to what Wylie, or Katharine Angell, told them what Ross wanted.”*...
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