It seems it’s becoming a Spill tradition to show this New Yorker drawing of mine (from the issue of December 8, 2014), and one other (on Thanksgiving day), followed by one on Friday by Liza Donnelly (leftovers-themed). ____________________________________________________________ A Favorite Thanksgiving New Yorker Cover Of the many Thanksgiving themed New Yorker covers, the one shown below, by Abe Birnbaum, has
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57 Years Ago In The New Yorker Why look at an issue from 57 years ago you might ask (instead of 50, 60 years ago, or 70, and so on)? The answer is convenience. A bound volume of New Yorkers covering September-October 1965 happens to be hanging around in the vicinity of my desk. It’s hanging around because it’s one
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Auction Watch: A Richard McCallister Rough While scanning Ebay this morning I was surprised to come across the Richard McCallister rough shown below; I’d seen it quite awhile ago, and then hadn’t seen it for a long time — I assumed it found a home. McCallister (who died in 1995) was primarily an idea person — his captions/ideas were central
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A Look At The New Yorker’s 25th Anniversary Issue This morning I grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf that includes the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue. Hmmmm, I thought to myself…1950. interesting time for the magazine, with the semi-modern wave of cartoonists (Saxon, Weber, Lorenz, Miller, etc.) yet to arrive. If we remember that Harold Ross (the
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