An Abe Birnbaum St. Patrick’s Day Cover Mr. Birnbaum remains one of my all-time favorite New Yorker cover artists. I do wish someone would publish a collection of his work (one hundred and forty-one New Yorker covers!). Here’s his Spill A-Z entry: Abe Birnbaum Born, New York City, 1899. Died June 19, 1966, New York City. New Yorker work: 1929
Read moreCheck out Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils. She interviews the filmmakers now working on Drawing Life, the “partly animated film” about George Booth. ___________________ More on…A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber A review copy — in pdf — of the upcoming Thurber title shown above has reached the Spill‘s headquarters. Michael Rosen, who
Read moreFave Photo of the Day Courtesy of New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Jeremy Nguyen, this photo taken last Monday of a cartoon event at Brooks Brothers. Beginning at the bottom ‘o’ the stairs and heading up: Emma Allen, the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, and cartoonists Drew Dernavich, Liana Finck, and Jason Adam Katzenstein (aka J.A.K.). And unless I’m mistaken, that’s the
Read moreHere’s a wonderful collection of the late great Al Frueh’s theater work for The New Yorker and elsewhere. The New York Times had Al Hirschfeld, The New Yorker had Al Frueh. Mr. Frueh’s New Yorker colleague, Brendan Gill provides an informative and insightful intro. For more on Mr. Frueh, here’s a Spill piece about him, “The First New Yorker Cartoon”
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