A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
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An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon (twice this week), (online contributor), Tristan Crocker, Matt Reuter. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Manuel Herrera), Eugenia Viti (with Lillian Stone). …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Available In The SCOTUS Gift Shop”
Read moreCartoon Pad Pod Guest: Teresa Burns Parkhurst Those wacky hosts, Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw are back with another installment of the Cartoon Pad pod. This week’s guest is Teresa Burns Parkhurst, who began contributing to The New Yorker in the Fall of 2017. Link here to listen. You can see some of Ms. Parkhurst’s New Yorker work here. ___________________________________________________________________
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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