The Very First Published Thurber Drawing Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, the must-have book for Thurbermaniacs tells us that Thurber’s very first published drawing in a periodical, shown above*, was in Ohio State University’s Sun-Dial, November, 1917. It was followed by seven more drawings in the same paper, the last appearing March 7, 1918. The timeline for Thurber’s
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Steinberg’s “Illuminations” I could’ve titled this post “The Big Freeze.” It’s about falling out of love with Steinberg’s work, and then, ever-so-slightly falling back. The book shown above, according to text on the copyright page, “was published [in 2006] on the occasion of the exhibition Saul Steinberg: Illuminations”…and therein lies the personal reason for the
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Drawing Snow In these parts, a hundred miles north of Times Square, we’ve finally received some snow in the past few days. It’s a reasonable amount — not enough to cause “problems.” Standing outside this morning looking at the woods, I noticed our stone rabbit had a nice little hat of the white stuff. Seeing this reminded me of what
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Microscopic fibers? No, ski trails. More here. This Week’s Single Panel Cartoonists: Maggie Larson, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Bob Eckstein, Roz Chast, Felipe Galindo, Amy Hwang, Paul Noth, Benjamin Schwartz, Liana Finck, Avi Steinberg, Frank Cotham, Teresa Burns Parkhurst,
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