Four Interviews Of Interest Three interviews with three folks with new books. Left to right below: Bob Eckstein‘s Footnotes From The Most Fascinating Museums, Asher Perlman‘s Well, This is Me, and Larry Wood‘s Your Caption Has Been Selected. The interviews with Bob Eckstein, and Asher Perlman were brought to my attention via D.D. Degg’s article at The Daily Cartoonist. Go
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Thurber’s UK Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze On the left above is the US edition of James Thurber’s fifth book, 1935’s The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze. On the right is very latest Thurber addition to the Spill library: the UK Hamish Hamilton Middle-Aged Man. The cover drawing is the same —
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Liza Donnelly Guests On Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982, is the latest guest on Bob Eckstein‘s and Michael Shaw‘s Cartoon Pad. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Michael Shaw in 1999. Ms. Donnelly talks with the
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Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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