Starting off the first week of the new year with an early Thurber Thursday…so it’s Thurber Tuesday… After approximately fifty years of collecting Thurber, you might think the Spill library would be in the vicinity of complete, Thurber-wise (not that there really is such a thing as complete). But one major title has always been missing. Thinking about why it
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An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features. The week of December 27-31, 2021 The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Emily Bernstein, Suerynn Lee, Mort Gerberg, Ellis Rosen. Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s Assistant Cartoon Editor) with Ella Quittner, Ali Fitzgerald. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Ringing In The New Year (On Zoom)” _______________________________________________________
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Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021, “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie
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Over the weekend I showed you a Charles Saxon TV Guide Santa Cover. Here are a few more New Yorker artists who contributed TV Guide holiday covers. You can find these and so much more on this terrif resource, TV Guide Magazine: The Cover Archive. Clockwise from upper left: Ronald Searle (Dec. 25, 1976); Andre Francois (Dec. 20, 1975); William
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