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Librarians tour New Yorker’s library; S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts
Librarians tour New Yorker’s Library: From The Desk Set, April 14, 2011, this piece, “The New Yorker Library (aka the best place on earth).” In the above photo from the post: a glimpse of William...
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Tom Cheney: Lessons from Charles Rodrigues
This is the second installment in an Ink Spill series of cartoonists talking about the important cartoon connections in their lives. Felipe Galindo wrote about Steinberg...
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J.C. Suares: 1942 – 2013
Jean-Claude Suares, who died this past July 30, in Englewood, New Jersey, is best known for his work apart from The New Yorker (see the various links below that cover his life and career), but I will...
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Cat Cartoons a-plenty in the Big New Yorker Book of Cats
Coming October 1st from Random House: The Big New Yorker Book of Cats ( you may remember that The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs was published almost exactly a year ago). As you’d expect, the book...
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Fave Photo of the Day, Pt.2; A 1973 Profile of William Hamilton; John Updike...
Fave Photo of the Day: (l-r) Ken Krimstein, Bob Eckstein and Pat Byrnes in Chicago this week. __________________________________________________________________________________ From...
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New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton: 1939 -2016
From SFGate, the sad news that long-time New Yorker cartoonist William Hamilton died Friday in a car accident in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 76. SFGate story here. His New York Times obit here Mr....
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Chast’s Cartoon Memoirs; A Publisher Remembers William Hamilton
Now at The Museum of the City of New York: Roz Chast’s Cartoon Memoirs. First seen at The Norman Rockwell Museum, this exhibit of Ms. Chast’s work has now traveled south to her hometown (if not her...
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Karasik’s William Hamilton Tribute
Ink Spill will continue to post New Yorker cartoonists tributes to our colleague William Hamilton, who passed away April 8 of this year. Link here to Paul Karasik’s Hamilton piece on his blog, Rules To...
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St. Helenans Remember William Hamilton
From The Napa Valley Register, May 3, 2016, this piece: “New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton Loved St. Helena” The post St. Helenans Remember William Hamilton appeared first on Inkspill.
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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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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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The 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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William Hamilton’s Life on the Farm; Gil Roth Interviews Ben Katchor (again);...
From The Lexington Herald Leader, October 28, 2016, “Who Knew Famous New Yorker Cartoonist Lampooned City Life From a Kentucky Farm?”— this piece about the late great...
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Newest Addition to Ink Spill’s Library: Comically Correct
Courtesy of Danny Shanahan, this promotional booklet (offered with new New Yorker subscriptions?) from 1995 has been added to Ink Spill‘s Library. Of the many promo...
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So Long, 2016. Howdy, 2017
Geez, what a year. I’ve spent this morning looking back through Ink Spill’s 2016 posts. This was the year we lost more New Yorker cartoonist colleagues than in any previous twelve month period in...
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