Here’s to you, New York Public Library, in honor of and thanks for your current exhibit celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary, A Century of The New Yorker. Below are some of the magazine’s earliest drawings featuring the New York Public Library lions, Patience and Fortitude . Above: a spectacular Barbara Shermund spot drawing from the issue of February 2,
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The 2025 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art Goes to Paul Noth Thurber House announced this morning that the winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art goes to Paul Noth, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2004. The Spill congratulates Mr. Noth! The below
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When we think about The New Yorker’s early years and its marquee personalities, John Mosher’s name doesn’t come up very often, if at all. And yet, he was the person who, in Katharine White’s words, “discovered” James Thurber. Mosher’s work at The New Yorker included reading unsolicited manuscripts (he was also the magazine’s first regularly assigned film critic). It was
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_______________________________________________________________________ Ad Of Interest: “The Cream Of New Yorker Art” Here’s a fun ad found in The New Yorker issue of November 27, 1937. Here’s what the Spill’s copy of the book looks like (alongside the Album’s original cover appearance on the New Yorker issue of December 14, 1935. Artist: William Galbraith). And here’re the Albums, up to 1975.
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