Sunday Spill: A Great Sunday Read: “A New Yorker State Of Mind”

Great Sunday Read: A New Yorker State Of Mind This week’s installment of David O’s A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine is particularly enjoyable. Read it here! –Cover by W. Cotton _______________________________________ Here’s Mr. Cotton’s A-Z Entry: William Cotton Born, 1880, Newport, Rhode Island; died, Sergeantsville, New Jersey, January 1958. 55 covers for

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Tuesday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935; Attempted Bloggery Looks At Addams’ Unicorn And Bliss’s; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; A Note Of Thanks

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935   A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine closes out 2025 with its patented close look-see of an issue from long long ago. In this case it’s the issue of December 21, 1935 Read here.  –Cover: Ilonka Karasz    __________________________________________________

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Saturday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…West Coasters Panel; The Tilley Watch Online, December 8-12, 2025; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of Nov. 30, 1935

Fave Photo Of The Week: “West Coasters” Panel East Coaster New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton, visiting out on the West Coast, attended last night’s West Coaster panel discussion at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, took the photo below, and was kind enough to send it along to the Spill. (Thank you, Robert!). Pictured l-r, Cartoon Art Museum curator, Andrew Farago,

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Friday Spill: “The New Yorker At 100” Debuts on Netflix; Peter Kuper’s Tilley; “A New Yorker State Of Mind” Looks At The Issue Of Nov. 16, 1935

“The New Yorker At 100” Debuts On Netflix As of today, The New Yorker At 100 is available for home viewing. I’ve watched it through twice this morning and have a number of thoughts; I’m going to let them brew for a bit (and perhaps watch the film once more) before writing at any length about it. In the meantime,

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