Tuesday Spill: Chast’s Embroidery; Library Odds & Ends

 

Chast’s Embroidery

From Threads Magazine, “Cartoonist Artist Roz Chast Draws With Needle And Thread” 

Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 1978. 

Visit her website here. 

 

 

 

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Library Odds & Ends

Okay, so these aren’t really “odd” but they are literally at the end of one of the Spill’s library shelves. Dust jacket-wise, it’s an incomplete mini-collection, with only Our Own Baedeker and The New Yorker Book Of Verse dust jacketed. My online searches tell me that every one of these books (except the modern book shown far right) has a New Yorker art/artist connection, either because the cover was by one of the magazine’s artists and/or cartoons appear in the text, or a cartoonist’s writing appears within. 

The New Yorker Scrapbook (1931)

Here’s what I think The New Yorker Scrapbook dust jacket looks like. I’ve never actually seen one; this possible cover image comes from the back cover of The Fourth New Yorker Album. The art/artist connections here: a small portion of a John Held, Jr. drawing peeking out just to the left of the “The” in the title. There are portions of a few Spot drawings shown, and possibly a small portion of a single panel cartoon. Another cartoon connection is James Thurber, whose writing appears within. His name also appears at the very bottom of the cover: 

Ho-Hum & Another Ho Hum 

Both of these cover scans are “borrowed” from Chris Wheeler’s terrif site, (Mr. Wheeler credits Chris Ware for the images). As you can see, Otto Soglow’s work appears on both covers, and within each book. Ho Hum was published in 1931 and Another Ho Hum in 1932.

The New Yorker Book Of Verse (1935)

When I wrote about this book nearly three years ago I said this about the cover art and artist: 

The cover illustration — a complex fascinating piece of work — is signed “Earle”  — I wish I knew something, anything, about Earle, but I don’t.  Spot artists (assuming that that was a spot drawing) often went unheralded in those early days.

Within the book one artist contributes verse: Peggy Bacon. 

Profiles From The New Yorker (1938)

This is the best image I can come up with for the book (taken from an ad in the December 24, 1938 New Yorker). There are no cartoons or illustrations within the book, nor is there a profile contributed by one of the magazine’s artists, but the cover art sure looks like William Cotton’s work.

As an added bit of puzzlement,  The New Yorker Profiles was issued as an “Armed Services Edition” during WWII. The cover shown is E.B. White’s one-and-only New Yorker cover, published April 23, 1932: 

 

 

 

 

Our Own Baedeker (1947)

 “Maps and illustrations by Carl Rose.” The book is loaded with illustrations by Mr. Rose.