An Abe Birnbaum St. Patrick’s Day Cover Mr. Birnbaum remains one of my all-time favorite New Yorker cover artists. I do wish someone would publish a collection of his work (one hundred and forty-one New Yorker covers!). Here’s his Spill A-Z entry: Abe Birnbaum Born, New York City, 1899. Died June 19, 1966, New York City. New Yorker work: 1929
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In the past couple of years it’s become more and more difficult to find affordable bound volumes of The New Yorker. For some reason, they are, in many cases, now hundreds of dollars per volume, and not $20 or $30 as they were for years when I built up the majority of the Spill‘s collection. The other day when I
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It seems it’s becoming a Spill tradition to show this New Yorker drawing of mine (from the issue of December 8, 2014), and one other (on Thanksgiving day), followed by one on Friday by Liza Donnelly (leftovers-themed). ____________________________________________________________ A Favorite Thanksgiving New Yorker Cover Of the many Thanksgiving themed New Yorker covers, the one shown below, by Abe Birnbaum, has
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 25-29, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Colin Tom, Sophie Lucido Johnson, Sarah Kempa, J.A.K., Emily Flake. Daily Shouts: Sarah Kempa (with
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