Latest Cartoon Pad, With Guest Jason Chatfield This new-ish fun series, with hosts, New Yorker cartoonists, Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw, continues with today’s episode featuring Jason Chatfield. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Michael Shaw in 1999; Jason Chatfield in 2017. ______________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Barry Blitt From Connecticut Magazine, May 27, 2021, “New
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Personal History: Pre-New Yorker Reading Material Although it might seem like it’s all about The New Yorker here at Spill headquarters, there’s no denying that before The New Yorker became what it’s become (here) there were other reading materials. Like many kids, it was the comics, mostly in the form of comic books, that ate up the hours. I managed
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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Coming in June of this year from the terrif R.O. Blechman, One The One Hand/On The Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories Of R.O. Blechman/The Writing Of R.O. Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). Read far more here. Here’s Mr. Blechman’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New
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