Muse, as defined by The Cambridge Dictionary: a person, or an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas and helps them to write, paint, or make music I’m partial to “force” as a muse, as I
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Tag: Cartoonists
Thurber Thursday: Thurber Originals At The Library of Congress, Smith College, And The Art Institute Of Chicago
Thurber Original Drawings At The Library Of Congress & Smith Last Thursday, the Spill noted Vassar’s two Thurber original drawings. In the days since, comics scholar, editor of ComicsDC, and good friend of the Spill, Mike Rhode, alerted me to the Thurber originals in The Library of
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Wednesday Spill: First and Last New Yorker Drawing…Vahan Shirvanian
First And Last…Vahan Shirvanian Another in the series of a New Yorker cartoonist’s very first published (New Yorker) drawing, and their last. Vahan Shirvanian Born, Hackensack, New Jersey, 1925. Died, January 30, 2013,
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Tuesday Spill: Latest Addition to The Spill Library…”Coping With The ’70s” — A New Yorker Advertising Booklet Includes Drawings By Saxon, Modell, Chon Day, Barsotti
Latest Addition to the Spill Library: Coping with The ’70s — a New Yorker Advertising Booklet The number of New Yorker ad booklets seems endless. I wonder if anyone kept track of how many were produced. Just this week, six more have been added to the Spill‘s library (the other five haven’t arrived yet — I’m just showing you the
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