Wednesday Spill: “A New Yorker State Of Mind” On The New Yorker Issue Of August 7, 1935; Article Of Interest…Gabrielle Drolet’s “Look Ma, No Hands”

A New Yorker State Of Mind On The New Yorker Issue Of August 17, 1935 It’s always a treat reading A New Yorker State Of Mind, a Spill favorite blog. Take a guided tour through the issue here. –Left: the issue’s cover by Julian De Miskey           ______________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Gabrielle Drolet   From The

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Tuesday Spill: “We’ll Draw Anything”

We’ll Draw Anything Two Saturdays ago, Liza Donnelly and I were part of the 50th anniversary celebration for our wonderful local indy bookstore, Oblong Books. We sat at a table and drew whatever anyone wanted us to draw (except caricatures*). Liza has had a ton of experience drawing out in public (but perhaps not in too many “draw whatever you

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Sunday Spill: Christopher Weyant’s Reuben Award; Bill Maher “Decodes” New Yorker Cartoons with Chris Pratt

Christopher Weyant’s Award Congrats to Christopher Weyant (seen here in a photo posted on social media), who won the National Cartoonist Society award in the category of best single panel cartoons*  at the Reuben Awards in Boston on the 15th of this month. Mr. Weyant began  contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. Congrats also to

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