Tuesday Spill: Slideshow Of Interest “Cartoon Highlights 1976-1985”; Fave Cartoonist Signature Of The Week…Gluyas Williams; Summer Daze

Slideshow Of Interest: “Cartoon Highlights 1976-1985”

The New Yorker has been celebrating its 100th birthday this year with decade-by-decade slideshows of “Cartoon Highlights.” Link here to see the latest (1976-1985). This one begins with a 1982 cartoon by Liza Donnelly (her first cartoon sold to The New Yorker, but it ran after the second one bought was published. Go figure).

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Fave Cartoonist Signature Of The Week: Gluyas Williams

The Spill recently received a lovely addition to its archives through the generosity of a fellow cartoonist (thank you fellow cartoonist!).

This is a first for the archive: a cartoonist’s signature — Gluyas Williams signature! — all by its lonesome, on a sort of Rolodex card size stiff piece of cardboard.

Mr. Williams was, along with Peter Arno and Helen Hokinson, at the very top of a 1947 New Yorker artists’ classifications document in the “Special” category.

Here’s Mr. Williams A-Z entry:

Gluyas Williams Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. New Yorker work: 1926-1951.

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Summer Daze

—The New Yorker, August 21, 2000