First & Last: Donald Reilly Another in a series of Spill posts looking at an artist’s very first and the very last New Yorker drawing. Here’s Mr. Reilly’s A-Z entry: Donald Reilly ( Pictured in the mid 1980s. Photograph by Liza Donnelly) Born, Scranton, Pa. November 11, 1933; died, Wilton, Ct., June 18, 2006. Graduated from Muhlenberg College in
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A Trusty Summertime Quartet I’ve written before about the summertime New Yorker reading that awaits when my cartoonist colleague (and wife) Liza Donnelly and I make our annual trek to Maine. In that piece about summer reading I didn’t mention the quartet of older New Yorker magazines that also remain year after year in “Vacationland” (we continue working while here, so
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Art & Artists For many years I’ve had a very small ongoing non-cartoon sideline: doing oil paintings on canvas or board. These are done for a laugh; a different kind of laugh than cartoons. They’re given to family members on birthdays and holidays, or sometimes they’re just placed on a shelf. Left: an example of one of the paintings (done
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57 Years Ago In The New Yorker Why look at an issue from 57 years ago you might ask (instead of 50, 60 years ago, or 70, and so on)? The answer is convenience. A bound volume of New Yorkers covering September-October 1965 happens to be hanging around in the vicinity of my desk. It’s hanging around because it’s one
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