Easter Sunday Spill It’s a Spill Easter tradition to post this long ago rejected cover submission (“long ago” as in the William Shawn era). I was painting on board then, using watercolors
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Tag: Cartoonists
Friday Spill: From Spain…Two Charles Addams Collections
Over the years, I’ve shown a lot of non-US James Thurber book covers. When I ran across these Charles Addams books published in Spain (the top one in 2009 and the one below it in 2017) it dawned on me that it would be fun to hunt for non-US covers by other New Yorker artists. So I’ll be on the
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Thurber Thursday: Of James Thurber’s 449 New Yorker Drawings, How Many Were His And His Alone?
One of the most persistent myths in The New Yorker cartooniverse is that most New Yorker cartoonists in the early days (whatever that means) did not write their own ideas, that they depended on writers for their supply. The truth is (and I have a feeling this will not be the last time I say this on this site) that
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Wednesday Spill…A Group: Otto Soglow, Bob Eckstein, Warren Miller
A Group: Otto Soglow, Bob Eckstein, Warren Miller Another in a series of groupings of books and original art. Today the cartoonist spirits moved me to select an unusual book by Otto Soglow, as well as art and books by Bob Eckstein, and Warren Miller.
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