Coming Across A New Yorker “Moment” The other day I sat down with a newly acquired bound volume of The New Yorker that includes issues from the Fall and Winter of 1925. Looking at an actual print magazine has always been, for me, a far better experience than looking at an online digital issue; the cover colors are richer; the
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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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Homecoming Not too long ago (a week-and-a-half at most) Liza Donnelly and I drove into Manhattan and picked up a carload of original cartoon art that had been exhibited at The Society of Illustrators (“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”).This event — the exhibit and the retrieval of the work — was a Liza Donnelly operation. I was
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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