One of the most recent additions to the Spill archives is a dust-jacketed copy of the very first collection of New Yorker cartoons (or drawings, if you’re feeling traditional): The New Yorker Album, published by Doubleday Doran in 1928. This is the third dust-jacketed copy to be added to the collection (I believe there’s another copy around here sans dust
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Podcast Of Interest: Liza Donnelly From Drawing Inspiration, April 5, 2021, this hour plus podcast featuring Ms. Donnelly. Here’s Donnelly’s Spill A-Z entry: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus, 2005). Edited: Sex & Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy
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Article Of Interest: Sofia Warren From News@Wesleyan, April 2, 2021, “Warren ’13 Talks Virtual Advice, Cartoons, Creativity” Ms. Warren began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. _______________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Maggie Larson Basketball from Ms. Larson, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2017. Visit her website here _____________________________________________________________ The New
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It’s Easter Sunday, which means this rejected cover attempt of mine from many many years ago has been dusted off and posted. I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit to a bit of Addams influence in the piece. Eckstein & Shaw “Cartoon Pad” Podcast Debuts The fellows who brought you The Elements Of Stress have debuted a bi-weekly
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Video Of Interest: Harry Bliss The Center For Cartoon Studies Spring Will Eisner Lecture: “An Hour With Harry Bliss”… Mr. Bliss began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. See it here. Visit Harry Bliss’s website here. __________________________________________________ Catching Up With A New Yorker State Of Mind It’s been too long since we checked in on a Spill fave site,
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