Happy 96th, Edward Sorel! The Spill wishes the one-and-only Edward Sorel a very happy 96th birthday! Above left: Mr. Sorel at The Century Cub in 2021, celebrating the release of his memoir, Profusely Illustrated. on the right: Mr. Sorel’s first book, Moon Missing, published in 1962. Below: Mr. Sorel’s New Yorker cover
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_______________________________________________________________________ Ad Of Interest: “The Cream Of New Yorker Art” Here’s a fun ad found in The New Yorker issue of November 27, 1937. Here’s what the Spill’s copy of the book looks like (alongside the Album’s original cover appearance on the New Yorker issue of December 14, 1935. Artist: William Galbraith). And here’re the Albums, up to 1975.
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From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,
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A Spill favorite New Yorker-centric blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine is celebrating its 10th anniversary. David O, blogmeister of ANYSOM also announced he was taking a one year break. Dear to the Spill‘s heart was Mr. O’s call for Rea Irvin’s Talk of The Town heading as well as Mr.
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