High Bar: The New Yorker’s 1979 Anniversary Issue On a recent podcast, I mentioned my tendency to avoid using “best” — you know: best cartoonist, best cartoon, best cover, best pizza, etc., etc.. (I also avoid using “worst”). With that in mind, I won’t go as far as saying the 1979 anniversary issue of The New Yorker is the best
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This MAD Magazine Eustace Tilley parody (published as the back cover of the March 1977 issue) somehow escaped my attention for 48 years. I just ran across it yesterday. Without an actual copy in hand, I’ve no idea who the artist was. If you know, please let me know. _________________ More Reading: Here’s a Spill piece from March of 2024
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The photos below of James Thurber showed up on Ebay last year, offered within one lot by an Egyptian seller. I’ve no idea who took these photos, when they were taken or where. I don’t know if they were published. If someone does know, please contact me. What I do know is that I find them fascinating. There’s a casualness
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Now That’s A Cover! Ilonka Karasz again returns to the Spill’s cover series not long after appearing in the Spring. It might seem I’m in a Karasz phase, but the truth of it is I don’t look for any particular artist’s work as I go through the New Yorker‘s covers (often using The Complete Book Of Covers From The New
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