Latest Additions to The Spill Library: Through the kindness of two friends of the Spill, two book deliveries arrived at my door this week. Here’s the first: What you see above, from the top down: The very first New Yorker Album …a heart-stopper whenever I see a dust-jacketed copy. This one has (amazingly, considering its age: 97 years) retained the
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An Alajalov Marx Brothers Ad Steve Stoliar, who knows his Marx Brothers, posted this terrif 1931 Monkey Business ad the other day. The artist: Alajalov Alajalov’s A-Z entry: Constantin Alajalov Born Constantin Aladjalov, 1900, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. Died Oct., 1987, Amenia, New York. New Yorker work: 1926 -1960. Perhaps best known for his New Yorker covers ( he also
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A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.
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Article Of Interest: “What’s So Funny About James Thurber?” When I first came across the title of this article by Holly Brubach that appeared in the November 1982 issue of Vogue, I thought, “Oh brother, here we go — another rethinking of Thurber’s place in American letters.” But once I got hold of and read the two page article (available
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