A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller Yesterday, taking a break from drawing, I began poking through a stack of New Yorkers from the late 1960s. An Andre Francois cover on the issue of July 26, 1969 grabbed my attention. I’ve always loved Mr. Francois’s cover work (it’s possible I’m especially fond of it because he had the cover
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No Piano Is An Island, Sometimes I noticed the below scene early this morning. It made me appreciate our old player piano for the role it plays as a staging ground for various New Yorker things (books, art) that have yet to find their proper place around the house. All of those bound New Yorkers need a better place (they’re
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Latest Addition to the Spill Library: Coping with The ’70s — a New Yorker Advertising Booklet The number of New Yorker ad booklets seems endless. I wonder if anyone kept track of how many were produced. Just this week, six more have been added to the Spill‘s library (the other five haven’t arrived yet — I’m just showing you the
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A Group: Nurit Karlin, Joe Dator, Charles Barsotti, Lou Myers “A Group” is a Spill series pulling together work by New Yorker artists, just for the fun of it. Photo: work above, clockwise from top-left: Nurit Karlin, Joe Dator, Lou Myers, Charles Barsotti How incredibly distinct each one of these cartoonists styles
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