Note to Readers: Ink Spill was down nearly all of yesterday due to who knows what (that’s as technical as I get). Sorry about that. The Monday Tilley Watch is off this week as we’re in the second week of a double issue (August 3 & 10, 2020). Just for fun I thought I’d take a quick look at the
Read more___________________________________________________________________________________ A fun evening at Parsons School of Design back in October of 1984. The occasion was the opening of a group show of New Yorker art. The group photo above and the smaller photos, by T. Dovidio, appeared in The Village Voice. Below is a barely legible key (sorry!) to the artists shown. One person is unknown to me.
Read more_____________________________________________________________________________ From Attempted Bloggery, July 19, 2020, “…Rea Irvin’s Killed New Yorker Cover Art Printing Plate” — an interesting item rescued from a long-ago flooded New Yorker basement courtesy of a Spill fave blogger. Left: Rea Irvin, The New Yorker’s jack-of-all-graphics ___________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State OF Mind Dives Deep into the July 4th & July 11th 1931 Issues
Read moreThe Cover: As you can see by the puzzled fellow icon, I am a little puzzled (though not completely puzzled) by Christoph Niemann’s Geico-esque subway cover for the July 15th issue. Luckily, there’s the go-to weekly Q&A for those in need of clarity. The Cartoonists: The Newbie: Madeline Horwath debuts this week. She is the 21st new New Yorker
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