We’re halfway through two weeks covered by the New Yorker double issue of December 26th, 2024 & January 6th, 2025. The regular Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday, January 6, 2025.
Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws!
Here’s a fun short video the terrif Peter Steiner posted on social media. Mr. Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Visit his website here.
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Latest Additions to The Spill Library: A German Peter Arno Collection & A Giant Stack Of Cartoonist Profiles
The German Peter Arno collection I mentioned last week (?) as making its way across the Atlantic to Spill headquarters arrived on Friday. It’s a great little softcover book, with a two page introduction (by Hans Gamber) I can’t read. Since the captions are in German, I “read” them in my head as I page through (the captionless Man In The Shower drawing is the exception).
The quality of the printing is so-so — the classic Arno black ink shows up as a dark grey (the best way to see Arno drawings, other than seeing originals in person, remains his Simon & Schuster collections).
Here’s the back cover. It looks fairly thorough for a capsule bio. I was impressed, or maybe mystified, that Arno’s Broadway historic flop, “Here Goes The Bride” was included.
…Also arrived recently, through the kindness of a regular Spill visitor (thank you, dear reader), this large stack of Cartoonist Profiles. So much to go through! I will eventually incorporate these into the ones already in the library. I’ve started noting which issues contain New Yorker material (the magazine’s editor and founder, Jud Hurd, often included great interviews with New Yorker artists).
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An Ad For A Great Collection By Gluyas Williams — “The Genial Gentle Wit”
From the December 14, 1929 New Yorker, here’s an ad for The Gluyas Williams Book. Some Spill readers might recall that The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, Harold Ross considered three of his artists above all the rest (he not only felt this way, he actually placed them, graphically, in a memo listing all the artists, above the other artists (the three: Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, and Gluyas Williams).
