The After-Shave Club Who knew! Once upon a time, long ago, there was an after-shave club (at least in the minds of ad folks). Here’s an ad showing a drawing by New Yorker artist and club member, Alajalov. As you see in the copy, James Thurber lent his name to Aqua Velva’s campaign. One didn’t need to do anything but
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Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists. Although he began his thirty-four year New Yorker career as a cartoonist, Constantin Alajalov soon turned to contributing covers. One hundred and seventy of them to be exact. His cartoon contributions numbered forty-three. I’m not quite sure about this,
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A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons & Covers Collection A relative in England recently brought over a package of New Yorker cartoons clipped by their father in the mid 1940s. The Spill has a few other New Yorker cartoon collections in its archives (one is in a scrapbook, another contains just New Yorker covers held in a 3 ring binder,
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Addams Darker Work From Den Of Geek, October 5, 2021, “Charles Addams Cartoons Are Far Darker Than The Addams Family Films” Linda Davis, whose Addams biography comes out on the 19th of this month in a new edition, talks about the Addams Family films and more. Charles Addams A-Z Spill entry: Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey,
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