A Rejected Easter Cover Submitted Long Long Ago Here’s a cover idea I submitted toThe New Yorker over thirty years ago (it was rejected). I’ve always been kind of fond of it.
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Tag: Cartoonists
Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, April 14-18, 2025; Personal History…Revisiting Crumb
The Tilley Watch Online, April 14-18, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Dan Misdea, Ivan Ehlers, Adam Douglas Thompson, Tom Toro, Ali Solomon. Daily Cartoon Slideshow Cartoon Highlights 1956-1965 _________________________________________________________________ Personal History: Revisiting Crumb The publication this week of Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,
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Friday Spill: New Yorker Cover Artist Gretchen Dow Simpson, 1939 -2025
New Yorker Cover Artist Gretchen Dow Simpson: 1939 -2025 Sad news reached the Spill yesterday of the passing of Gretchen Dow Simpson. Ms. Simpson, who was 85, contributed 58 covers to the magazine from August 19, 1974 to June 7, 1993. During the mid-to-late 1970s when I began examining, cover-to-cover, each and every issue of The New Yorker, I became
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Thurber Thursday: E.B. White And James Thurber Sitting On Some Steps In Sneden’s Landing
E.B. White And James Thurber Sitting On Some Steps In Sneden’s Landing Above: a 1829 map showing Sneden’s Landing (just “Landing” in those days) at the top left to the west of the Hudson River. Scott Elledge’s wonderful E.B. White biography (published in 1984) includes a 1929 photograph showing E.B. White and James Thurber sitting on some steps. The photo
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