Latest Additions To The Spill Library: Two volumes of bound New Yorkers recently arrived here. I’m slowly filling in the early 1970s bound issues (there are plenty of loose issues in the library). This time period is especially of interest to me because these were the issues I studied, as a high school student, as they arrived in the
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Wednesday Spill: Sputtering Furnace Results In Finding A Dozen Saxon Profile Drawings
I had to keep myself occupied yesterday afternoon while a repairman was in our basement figuring out why the furnace was sputtering and causing the house to smell like an oil refinery. With the sound of clanging tools just below the floor of the space where I work, I figured it was a good time to grab a bound volume
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The Tilley Watch: 50 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker; Reminder! A Zoom Event Tomorrow Night…Cartoon Marriage: A Conversation With Two New Yorker Cartoonists; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Note to Readers: Ink Spill was down nearly all of yesterday due to who knows what (that’s as technical as I get). Sorry about that. The Monday Tilley Watch is off this week as we’re in the second week of a double issue (August 3 & 10, 2020). Just for fun I thought I’d take a quick look at the
Read moreSteve Stoliar On Meeting Charles Addams; Gil Roth Interviews Emily Flake; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)
Steve Stoliar On Meeting Charles Addams Mr. Stoliar, the author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House (BearManor Media, 2015), posted the following birthday tribute to Charles Addams on Facebook. My thanks to Mr. Stoliar for allowing it to appear here. Note: Dick Cavett’s New Yorker Cartoonists episodes were broadcast in March of 1978 (one taping, broken up into
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