Seven years ago I received an anonymous gift through the mail: an interesting copy of Peter Arno’s 1931 collection of drawings, Hullabaloo. The book was obviously well-loved as it included a stack of clipped drawings (mostly cartoons) and glued-in clippings (cartoons by Arno, some by his New Yorker colleagues). One of the pasted-in clippings is a piece by Selma
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W.B. Park, 1936-2021 Word has reached the Spill that the New Yorker cartoonist W.B. (William Bryan) Park has passed away. According to his obit on Legacy.com, he died on January 2nd of this new year. Born in Sanford, Florida in 1936, his first New Yorker drawing, bearing his notable scattered signature (above), appeared in the issue of July 13, 1981
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From Liza Donnelly, this evergreen, published in The New Yorker November 17, 2008 — _________________________________________________________________ Herblock In The New Yorker? Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Dator) Last night, The Spill received an email from the fab New Yorker cartoonist, Joe Dator that spirited this cartoonist away for awhile from watching political coverage. Here’s Mr. Dator’s email, almost in its entirety.
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Last week we were thrilled to see John Updike’s Thurber dog drawing (shown to the left) courtesy of Miranda Updike. Today we learn that Thurber’s dog traveled with Updike from his latter childhood home, in Plowville, Pennsylvania, to Harvard Yard (Updike went to Harvard from 1950 through 1954). Here, courtesy of Michael Updike, is a letter John Updike wrote home
Read moreWe’re now into the second week of a New Yorker double issue, dated January 4th & 11th. The Monday Tilley Watch, usually appearing here on this day, will return next week, when the issue of January 18th appears. In the meantime here’s a Spill Cartoon Detective piece. The Tale Of The Three Barlows…Or Is It Two Barlows? This little tale
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