The Spill continues its Thanksgiving tradition. First, this New Yorker drawing by Liza Donnelly, published November 26, 2007… …and this one by yours truly originally published in The New Yorker, December 8, 2014…
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Tag: Cartoonists
Thurber Thanksgiving Thursday; Ink Spill’s Traditional Football Drawing
As football is so associated with Thanksgiving, what better way to celebrate James Thurber, football, and Thanksgiving than to post this Homecoming program, dated November 21, 1936 cover for Thurber’s Alma mater, Ohio State. Here’s a Thurber-centric snippet from OSU’s The Lantern: Here’s more on Thurber, Ohio State, and Chic Harley (the post includes Thurber’s piece, “When Chic Harley Got
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Wednesday Spill: Edward Sorel’s New Yorker Horse Drawn Carriage Cover: A “Funny Sight Gag” Or Tina Vs. Ross? Or Tina & Ross?
Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized
Read moreTuesday Spill: “Addams Draws His Jokes With No Words At All”; Article Of Interest…The Daily Heller: “‘New Yorker’ Cartoonists Finally Show Their Faces”
Taking another look through a Life Magazine (dated December 7, 1942) that contains a great article on holiday New Yorker art (“Cartoon Books: “New Yorker” Art Fills New Albums”), I was reminded of this headline that accompanies a double page spread of Charles Addams’ art: Unfortunately I can’t show you the entire piece (you can see the issue’s contents by
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