Word has reached the Spill from “Stevenson: Lost and Found” Producer, Sally Williams that the film will begin streaming on Amazon this week. This is great news for those who missed it as well as for those who wish to see it again. Mr. Stevenson is in all likelihood the magazine’s most prolific New Yorker cartoonist contributor, with nearly two
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Another Harvey In The House I fell for this Alice Harvey original drawing the instant I spied it online. Luckily it has found its way to the Spill’s archives. Published in The New Yorker March 20, 1926, it was one of Harvey’s first dozen cartoons in the magazine (the Spill collection includes Ms. Harvey’s first captioned New Yorker drawing, published
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Back in 1980, I was booted out of my apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village (see my 11th Street downstair’s neighbor, Donald Barthelme’s December 4, 1978 Talk Of The Town piece about the building’s landlord — I’m one-half of trembling “…young cohabiting couple…” he mentions). Needing a break from Manhattan I took up an offer from an illustrator
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It’s publication day for the Bob Eckstein edited cartoon collection, All’s Fair In Love & War, the third Ultimate Cartoon collection edited by Mr. Eckstein, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Here’s the back cover listing all the contributors (including this cartoonist): I reached out to Mr. Eckstein today with a few questions, and he was gracious enough to respond: Michael
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