Appearance of Interest: Harry Bliss Harry Bliss, a New Yorker contributor since 1998, will speak at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History on September 18th. All the details here. __________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Begins a Gregory d’Alessio Appreciation Gregory d’Alessio, a New Yorker contributor — he contributed from 1934 – 1940 — who doesn’t get much attention is finally getting
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Chast at the National Book Festival; Attempted Bloggery on an “Arno” at Auction
Chast at the National Book Festival From Politics & Prose, “A National Book Festival for All Ages” — this piece on the upcoming D.C. event (Roz Chast mentioned). Link here to Ms. Chast’s website. ______________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery on an “Arno” at Auction An interesting piece over on Attempted Bloggery about a purported original Peter Arno drawing at auction. Read about
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 4: Steinberg; Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Rejected New Yorker Covers by Whittington, Higgins; Video: New York City in the 1920s
Steinberg did ad work? You bet. As with William Steig, a Steinberg Part 2 will be posted at some later time. Warren Bernard, Executive Director of SPX, is the one responsible for researching & gathering all these images. My thanks to Warren for allowing them to appear here. Here are the dates for these ads: Emerson, 1948; House & Garden,
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 1: Peter Arno; Shanahan’s Sharks
Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 1 Warren Bernard, author of the wonderful book, Cartoons For Victory, as well as Executive Director of The Small Press Expo, has generously allowed the Spill access to hundreds of images he has collected that depict advertising work executed by New Yorker cartoonists. The Spill will post these from time-to-time. This is not
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