I happened upon a paper-clipped bunch of pages today in the Spill‘s archives that I’d completely forgotten about. The very first page, from late 1980, appears above. It comes as news to me thirty-nine years later that I made a list of drawings that were being held by The New Yorker. This is what holding means: When a cartoonist submitted
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Guilty Pleasures: 75 New Yorker Cartoons Reprinted; Today’s Daily New Yorker Cartoonist: Tim Hamilton; Reminder: Roz Chast At The Strand Tonight; New York Times Op-Ed On The American Bystander; Gahan Wilson GoFundMe Campaign Over A Third Of The Way To Goal
Somehow this December 2018 release escaped notice here. What’s of particular interest are the number of reprinted New Yorker cartoons it contains: 75 of them. I can’t remember a non–New Yorker book that has ever come close to reprinting this many (if anyone does, please let me know). PR from the publisher, The Oxford University Press: In Guilty Pleasures, legal
Read moreFave Photo(s) Of The Day: Drew Friedman And Robert Crumb
Here are a couple of fun photos, taken in NYC yesterday: On the left is Drew Friedman, and on the right is Robert Crumb. What brought them together is the book Mr. Crumb is holding, The Book Of Weirdo, an anthology of Weirdo magazine (created by Mr. Crumb in 1981, it was published until 1993). The anthology is coming this
Read moreJames Stevenson Theater Prize Returns; Maira Kalman’s Work at Armory; I’m Emily Flake; Thurber’s Airedale, Muggs; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Ivan Ehlers
From Playing On Air, March 1, 2019, The Second Annual James Stevenson Prize For Comedic Short Plays. All the info here. Mr. Stevenson’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 -. Stevenson interned as an office boy at The New Yorker in the mid
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