Tuesday Spill: A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard; Liza Donnelly On Amy Hwang; Audio Of Interest…Emily Sanders Hopkins With Marshall Hopkins; Oh The Places Cartoons Go!

A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard

One of the funniest people on the planet will be exhibiting (some of) his New Yorker work beginning this week. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979.

Mick Stevens A-Z Entry:

Mick Stevens Born March 11, 1942, Portland, Oregon. New Yorker work: December 17, 1979- . Key collections: If Ducks Carried Guns (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1988), A Mystery, Wrapped in an Enigma, Served on a Bed of Lettuce ( Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989 , Things Not to Do Today (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989).

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Liza Donnelly On Amy Hwang

“The Cartoons Of Amy Hwang” is the latest entry in Liza Donnelly’s mini-series on New Yorker cartoonists featured in her upcoming documentary film, Women Laughing.

Amy Hwang began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Visit her website here.

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Audio Of Interest: Emily Sanders Hopkins with Marshall Hopkins

From Emily Writes, “Talking About New Yorker Cartoons” — Ms. Hopkins speaks with Marshall Hopkins about his time as the assistant to The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor. Listen here.

Emily Sanders Hopkins (formerly Emily Richards) New Yorker work: 2004 – . Born, Boston, Massachusetts, 1970. Grew up in Oregon, Hawaii, West Virginia, and Virginia. Attended Williams College and West Virginia University. Received a masters degree at Johns Hopkins University. Worked, initially, as a New Yorker fact checker before becoming a New Yorker cartoonist. When Ms. Richards married New Yorker cartoonist Marshall Hopkins they became the third married New Yorker cartoonist couple in the magazine’s history (Mary Petty & Alan Dunn were the first, Liza Donnelly & Michael Maslin were the second). Ms. Richards (Hopkins) is the first known Black female New Yorker cartoonist.

Marshall Hopkins Began at The New Yorker as an assistant to the magazine’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff. New Yorker work: 2004 – .

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Oh The Places Cartoons Go!

It’s always fun being reminded that a drawing I did while sitting on a couch in my living room has not only traveled to a place I’ve never been, but that it continues to serve its purpose. A recent Google alert turned up in my inbox about this article, “Steamers, Lobsters, And Chowder: The Ultimate Newport Restaurant Guide”— the article includes this passage:

“In Newport, dining out has been a full-contact sport since the Gilded Age—because what else would you expect in a place where “summer” is a verb? The seasonal residents who descend upon this Aquidneck Island resort town do so with a desire to see and be seen. While the dress code today is less elaborate than it was in the late 1800s, dining institutions still enforce a certain standard of style to this day—a New Yorker cartoon framed in the men’s room of the Clarke Cooke House summarizes the de facto Newport uniform: “You can kill me, but you can’t kill the navy-blue-blazer-and-khaki-pants combo.”

This is the drawing — it originally appeared in The New Yorker, August 29, 2016 — hanging in the Clarke Cooke House men’s room:

–Note: The Spill will happily post cartoons by other cartoonists seen in places hither & yon.