Early Cover Release Every so often, The New Yorker rush releases its cover art for the following week. Here’s next week’s, by David Plunkert: ___________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil & J.A.K. In Conversation From May of this year, Amy Kurzweil in a Book Talk at The Museum of Jewish Heritage, followed by a conversation with J.A.K.. See it here! Amy
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Attempted Bloggery On A Recent Auction Of Thurber Dogs A Spill favorite site, Attempted Bloggery has taken a long look at a recent auction of two framed Thurber dog drawings (and related materials). I was keeping tabs on this auction (as I do on any auction that has Thurber drawings) and was hoping there might be a slim chance of
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon I came across the below Richard Decker New Yorker drawing the other day (it was published June 28, 1952, not quite midway in his 38 year year run at the magazine). This drawing has so much going for it, I had to stay with it for awhile. I’ve no idea if it was
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A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller Yesterday, taking a break from drawing, I began poking through a stack of New Yorkers from the late 1960s. An Andre Francois cover on the issue of July 26, 1969 grabbed my attention. I’ve always loved Mr. Francois’s cover work (it’s possible I’m especially fond of it because he had the cover
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