Courtesy of the artist, Bob Eckstein, here’s the Spill‘s favorite modern Thanksgiving cartoon, published in The New Yorker November 26, 2012. Mr. Eckstein’s latest books are All’s Fair In Love And War: The Ultimate Cartoon Book (Princeton Architectural Press), a collection of drawings by forty-two cartoonists (including this one), And, with Michael Shaw, The Elements Of Stress And The Pursuit
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Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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Snowing here at Spill Headquarters. A nice way to enter the weekend. Charles McGrath On Daniel Menaker Be sure to check out Charles McGrath’s Postscript: “Remembering Daniel Menaker, A Lighthearted Champion Of His Writers” _________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon… Johnny DiNapoli on candy corn. Mr. Dinapoli began contributing to The New Yorker in June of 2019. Visit his website
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Video Of Interest: Jules Feiffer For the next two weeks you can see, for free(!) this just released film, Jules Feiffer: A Conversation. The film is followed by a zoom panel moderated by Michael Tisserand (who interviews Mr. Feiffer in the film) Liza Donnelly, Keith Knight, and Matt Wuerker. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In
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