Wednesday Spill: Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles

      Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles   The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind

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Friday Spill: New Yorker Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”

Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” A boffo opening reception last night at The Society of Illustrators for their Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit. Over 500 folks jammed into the Society (a record for any event ever held there). Above is a group photo (spliced together from a video taken by

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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Slide Show…”Oh, The Humidity” With Hokinson, Weber, Cotham and Fifteen More; The Tilley Watch Online, August 12-16, 2024; Book On The Horizon…”Singular Sensations: A Cultural History Of One-Panel Comics In The United States”

                                     New Yorker Slide Show: “Oh, The Humidity!”    Eighteen cartoons about the sticky icky, includes work by, among others, Helen Hokinson, Robert Weber, Liza Donnelly (shown to the left), Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Frank Cotham, Ali Solomon, Maggie Larson, and David Sipress. See

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