Latest Addition To The Spill Library: “Trades” From the Department of “You Never Know What You’ll Find.” While doing my daily browse through the internet the other day I came across a book titled “Trades” — a privately bound collection of New Yorker promotional brochures published in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of these brochures are titled From Our Regular
Read moreLast Sunday the 6th New Yorker Album was in this spot — today it’s The 5th New Yorker Album, published in 1932. It’s a heck of a lot of fun to look through and it has a bonus: the Foreward is by James Thurber. In 1932 he was in top form as a cartoonist and writer, as well as one
Read moreIt will come as no surprise to Ink Spill visitors that I enjoy lists. “The New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z” on this site being one example — the Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists Library” being another. I’ve been a fan of Chris Wheeler’s great website for years (he has been a generous contributor to the Spill’s archive). Here are two links for
Read moreFrom newyorker.com‘s Culture Desk, July 29, 2016 “Live-Drawing Hillary’s Historic Convention” — Liza Donnelly’s graphic account of her four days at the Democratic Convention. As mentioned earlier this week on the Spill, Ms. Donnelly spent the week embedded with CBS News in Philadelphia, drawing on-set, and in and around the convention hall. You can see some of her work
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