Celebrating Hoff
From beachedmiami.com, July 16, 2012, “Exhibition celebrates Miami cartoonist Syd Hoff at 100″ The post Celebrating Hoff appeared first on Inkspill.
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Celebrating Syd Hoff’s 100th
(Above: Hoff’s self-portrait from Collier’s Collects Its Wits, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1941) Today would’ve been Syd Hoff’s 100th birthday. Among his many accomplishments was contributing to The...
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Say It Ain’t So: Bazooka Joe Semi-Retired; Steinberg in a bind; Time travel:...
From The New York Times, November 29, 2012, “Change Comes to Playground Funny Papers” — this news of the near demise of Bazooka Joe (according to the article, he’ll appear occasionally, but not in...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Roth
Philip Roth, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was first published in The New Yorker the issue of March 14, 1959, with his story, “Defender of the Faith” causing an immediate stir (see the...
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Syd Hoff’s Online Exhibition
A website dedicated to the late great Syd Hoff now has a 19 panel online slide show, “Syd Hoff…the Man, the Magic & the Mystery.” Mr.Hoff’s niece, who created the website, writes to Ink Spill...
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BBC: Bert & Ernie New Yorker Cover & The Power of Cartoons: Bob Mankoff on...
From BBC News Magazine, July 19, 2013, “A Point of View: Bert, Ernie and the power of cartoons” And… From New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff’s newyorker.com blog,...
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Benchley’s “Walter Mitty”; Hoff’s “Laugh It Off”
From a 1944 CBS Radio Broadcast of a series, “This Is My Best” here’s an audio clip (not the full performance –just 19 minutes) of Robert Benchley performing James Thurber’s “The...
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Syd Hoff Exhibit out west; Marcella Hazan changed David Sipress’s Life
Ink Spill has learned from the niece of the late great Syd Hoff that the exhibit “Syd Hoff: The Man, the Magic and the Mystery” is opening this coming October 7th in Newport Beach,...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Arno
The late great New Yorker artist, Peter Arno was born 110 years ago today at home in Morningside Heights, New York. As many regular visitors to Ink Spill know, I began a biography of...
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Regan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New...
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More from the Tom Bloom Collection: Syd Hoff & George Price
Tom Bloom is a renowned illustrator for The New York Times (among other publications) as well as one of the most avid collectors of New Yorker cartoonist related books and ephemera I know. He is also...
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New Yorker Cartoonists & Tomato Juice
Attempted Bloggery takes a look at a series of ads for Libby’s Tomato Juice, with art by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, Syd Hoff, William Steig and James Thurber. Go see! The post New Yorker...
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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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The Outer Boroughs’ New Yorker Cartoonists: An Ink Spill Map
Joining two previous Ink Spill maps, The New Yorker’s New York, and New Jersey’s New Yorkers, is the Outer Boroughs’ New Yorker Cartoonists. Cartoonists included were born in the boroughs. I’m fairly...
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Cartoonist David Sipress on Staying Sane in Trumpland; Attempted Bloggery...
Post of Interest: David Sipress’s Cultural Comment on newyorker.com, February 3, 2017: “How To Stay Sane As A Cartoonist in Trumpland” See Mr. Sipress’s New Yorker work here on the magazine’s...
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