Taking another look through a Life Magazine (dated December 7, 1942) that contains a great article on holiday New Yorker art (“Cartoon Books: “New Yorker” Art Fills New Albums”), I was reminded of this headline that accompanies a double page spread of Charles Addams’ art: Unfortunately I can’t show you the entire piece (you can see the issue’s contents by
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Friday Spill: New Yorker Cartoonists Galore Attend “At Wit’s End” Launch
New Yorker Cartoonists Galore at the At Wit’s End Launch Party A terrif turn-out last night (despite the cold hard rain) in NYC at the Rizzoli bookstore for the launch of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. A goodly number of New Yorker artists were on hand to help send the book out into the world. Group photo
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Thurber Thursday: A Bevy Of Paperbacks; Book Event Of Interest This Evening…At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker
A Bevy Of Paperbacks Every so often it’s good to take stock, or, in this case, to lay the stock out on the floor and take a look at it. Below, in no particular order, are most, but not all, of the Thurber paperbacks in the Spill library (I just realized I left out two paperback editions of The Last
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Tuesday Spill: Pub Day For “At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Pub Day For “Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund”
Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen
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