A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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Case For Pencils Spotlights Ali Solomon Jane Mattimoe’s fab Case For Pencils blog features Ali Solomon this week. Ms. Solomon’s new book (shown here) is just out. Go here to see more of her work. Don’t forget to visit the Case For Pencils archive where you’ll find a spectacular line up of previously featured cartoonists. _________________________________________________________________________ The Latest ToonStack:
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