Every so often I like to take a look at a random issue of The New Yorker from well before my time there, or well before my time, period. This issue, of April 29, 1967 is solidly in the former category. The New Yorker was not yet on my mind — I was in fact, just about to begin transitioning
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On the Cover Fifty Years Ago This Week
On this snowy Saturday afternoon (at least snowy here in upstate New York) it seemed a fine time to take a look at what was on the cover of The New Yorker exactly
Read moreLatest Addition to Ink Spill’s Archives: “Drawings of the Theatre 1927” with Arno, Karasz, Birnbaum, and Covarrubias; More Spills: Bob Eckstein Cracks Wise for The New York Times on Debate Night; Donnelly Live-Tweet Draws Debate for CBS News
Thanks to the generosity of the illustrator Tom Bloom (who is an indefatigable collector of cartoon-related books & ephemera) Drawings of the Theatre 1927 has been added to the archives. I’d not heard of or seen
Read moreNew Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum: “Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is”
Thanks to the treasure trove of scans the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent to this site, we are able to behold this beautiful Abe Birnbaum cover for New Yorker writer Philip Hamburger’s 1949 collection, The Oblong Blur. Though Mr. Birnbaum (who died in 1966) was know principally for his
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