As we’re in the second week of a double issue, there’s no new issue to look at. Darn. Instead, let’s take a look at an issue from this week, seventy-five years ago. Cover by Ilonka Karasz: As much as I like the cartoons in this issue, it’s the Spot drawings that really caught my eye. So here are just a
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On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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