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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Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Hokinson, Soglow, Hamilton, Shellhase Originals On Ebay There’s life in original cartoon art — the markings, the “mistakes,”(often covered up with white out), the errant fingerprints, the ink and/or pencil or watercolors on paper, the aged (or not) color of the paper –all of it. Here’s a gathering of some of the original art
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 8-12, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ellis Rosen, Ali Solomon, Adam Douglas Thompson, Ivan Ehlers, Sarah Kempa. Shouts & Murmurs: Eugenia Viti, Adam Douglas Thompson. Sketchbook: Sofia Warren Link to The New Yorker‘s Humor & Cartoons section _________________________________________________________________
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Charles Saxon’s Neckties Adam Gopnik’s “The Knotty Death Of The Necktie,” (a Weekend Essay on newyorker.com) has this to say about the late great Charles Saxon: If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies. The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon captured these
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