The Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
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Weekend Spill: Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. At Word Brooklyn; Eckstein’s Books; The Tilley Watch Online, October 21-25, 2019
Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. Mark your calendar: J.A.K. will be signing The White Man’s Guide To Male Writers Of The Western Canon November 13th at Word Brooklyn. Info here. Mr. Katzenstein has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2014. _________________________________________________________ Eckstein’s Books From East Coast/West Coast/North Coast, October 27, 2019, “Bob Eckstein and His World’s Greatest Bookstores”
Read moreEditor Of The New Cartoon Collection “Everyone’s A Critic” Talks To The Spill; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Peter Kuper… And Yesterday’s:Teresa Burns Parkhurst; Podcast Of Interest With Emily Flake
Today’s pub day for Everyone’s A Critic (Princeton Architectural Press), the second in what will be a series of cartoon anthologies edited by Bob Eckstein, New Yorker cartoonist, best-selling author, and world’s leading snowman expert. Here at the Spill, the arrival of a cartoon collection is always cause for a cartoonist hoo-rah. This second book in the series features thirty-seven
Read moreNew York Times Dana Fradon Obit; New Books!; New Yorker Cover Artist Roxie Munro Remembers Dana Fradon; Edward Koren On Dana Fradon; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts…By Jenny Kroik
The New York Times Dana Fradon Obit Here’s Richard Sandomir’s New York Times obit for Dana Fradon, who passed away last week at the age of 97. Shown above, left to right: New Yorker artist Charles Saxon, New Yorker art editor (from 1939 – 1973) James Geraghty, New Yorker artist Dana Fradon, and New Yorker artist,Whitney Darrow, Jr. –photo: Sarah
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