The latest addition to the Spill library arrived yesterday: a bound volume of New Yorkers, covering October-November 1972. I have a particular fondness for this era of the magazine because this was the period when I really began paying attention to the magazine’s cartoons. (I’d begun sending in batches of cartoons to the magazine in 1971 while still in high
Read moreThe other day I wrote about the New Yorker Anniversary album: 1925-1975. Following up on that, here’s a little something about the Album that immediately followed it, The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975- 1985. In the entire run of Albums, this one would have to rank #1 in understated covers. A bit of trivia (or maybe it’s not so trivial):
Read moreWith a new entry in the New Yorker cartoon collection in the market place, the weighty and curious New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons, I thought it might be time to swing the spotlight another way — to a favorite New Yorker cartoon-related anthology, The New Yorker Album Of Drawings 1925 – 1975; a proven time-tested book that never ever fails
Read moreThe first time I saw this album I was rooting through boxes of books at a yard sale. My first thought, just seeing the cover (and before picking up the book) was that this was a galley. The cover, mostly white and devoid of drawings except for Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley floating in an orange oval frame, reminded me of
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