It’s been a good month for books here at the Spill. The Barbara Shermund title, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins, started things off with a bang. It’s truly a must-have for any New Yorker cartoon collection. Was pleased to get hold of The New Yorker bound volume, Jan – Feb 1977. I enjoy revisiting these issues
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A J.C. Duffy Promotional Video Here’s a two-and-a-half minute slideshow of J.C. Duffy’s work on Curated Cartoons (where you can buy original New Yorker cartoon art). Mr. Duffy created the video and also provided his own original music. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. I believe that the very first meta-New Yorker cartoon was drawn by Mr.
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Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by
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A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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