Favorite Photo of the Day: New Yorker Cartoonists at The Society of Illustrators
From Stephen Nadler, who runs the fun & informative Attempted Bloggery the above group photograph taken at last night’s opening of The Collection of Michael Maslin & Liza...
View ArticleAn Octet of Subas
Tom Bloom, a very good friend of this site, has just this morning sent along scans of his Susanne Suba illustrated book collection. Until Mr. Bloom’s scans arrived, I had thought that Ms. Suba, a...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleNew Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum: “Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is”
Thanks to the treasure trove of scans the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent to this site, we are able to behold this beautiful Abe Birnbaum cover for...
View ArticleOut Today! Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist
Finally! My thanks to Karen Green of Columbia University for last night’s wonderful send-off for Arno at Butler Library. And thanks too to Edward Sorel for co-piloting the...
View ArticleLatest Addition to Ink Spill’s Archives: “Drawings of the Theatre 1927” with...
Thanks to the generosity of the illustrator Tom Bloom (who is an indefatigable collector of cartoon-related books & ephemera) Drawings of the...
View ArticleA Time-Out with Helen Hokinson
Here are two obscure Helen Hokinson book jackets, courtesy of Tom Bloom, without whom the Ink Spill Library would be a far less interesting place. The title above was published in 1929 by...
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