There are but seven illustrations in Frank Case’s 1938 Tales Of A Wayward Inn — the “Wayward Inn” being The Algonquin Hotel (Mr. Case owned the place back in the Round Table days). Below is one of the seven: James Thurber’s take on the Algonquin’s lounge. According to Harrison Kinney’s Thurber bio, Thurber only attended one Round Table gathering (along
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Peter Kuper Receives Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Cartoon Award A big congrats to Peter Kuper! You can see a video of the awards here (Peter Kuper’s section is at the 1:00:24 mark) Mr. Kuper began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Visit his website here. (Below: a screengrab from the awards presentation) __________________________________________________________________ Events Of Interest: Joe Dator
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A Couple Of Auctioned Arnos A Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery, reports on two fab Peter Arno drawings recently auctioned: “All Aboard The Elevator” and “Duet At The Organ” _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry… Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New York City. Died February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY. New Yorker work: 1925 -1968.
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Knockoffs The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of. That duo (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist) is also the issue’s newbie: Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy, the 8th addition to
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