Tuesday Spill: Slideshow…”A Centenary Cartoon Collection Pt.2″; Liza Donnelly Guests On Chatfield’s “Draw Me Anything”; A New Yorker State Of Mind; When One Drawing Inspires Another
Slideshow Of Interest: “A Centenary Cartoon Collection, Pt.2”
About 60 cartoons from The New Yorker‘s 100 years. See them here.
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Liza Donnelly Guests On Jason Chatfield’s “Draw Me Anything”
Long time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly is Jason Chatfield’s guest today at noon on his live podcast, Draw Me Anything. See it here.
Ms. Donnelly began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979; Mr. Chatfield in 2017.
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A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of August 24, 1935
A Spill fave blog: A New Yorker State Of Mind; Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, dives deep into the issue of August 24, 1935.
Read all about city noise, and so much more… here.
— Cover by the one, the only, Rea Irvin
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When One Drawing Inspires Another
Back in my earliest days of wanting to contribute to The New Yorker I fell heavily under the spell of George Booth’s work. Just about every New Yorker cartoonist’s work has inspired me, but Booth’s world had a really good hold on me in the late 1970s, early 1980s. When the magazine’s 1981 anniversary issue came out, I fell in love with this Booth drawing that appeared:
The drawing has a perfect caption. How Booth drew Uncle Purvis was the icing on the cartoon. Never mind that a “Booth dog” was in the scene, and one of those wonderful gangly kids Booth perfected. This drawing was forever imprinted in my brain. It’s most definitely one of my top ten Booth cartoons.
Years later, with Booth’s drawing firmly in mind, I finally got around to paying tribute to it (and to Booth himself) with this drawing that appeared in The New Yorker issue of August 1, 2005.
That isn’t to say I hadn’t ever tipped the cap of my pen to Booth before. His garage mechanic drawings heavily inspired mine. Whenever one of mine appeared in the magazine I felt as if I should write Booth and apologize for infringing on his world. Being the generous soul he was I’ve a feeling he would’ve brushed my apology aside. Where would any of us cartoonists be without the great ones that came before us.
Where indeed?
"Where would any of us cartoonists be without the great ones that came before us."
Amen to that!