A Syd Hoff Salute From Attempted Bloggery Well this will be fun. Attempted Bloggery begins a salute to the late great Syd Hoff today. See it here! Here’s Mr. Hoff’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Syd Hoff ( Pictured above. Source: Esquire Cartoon album, 1957) Born 1912, New York City, died May 12, 2004, Miami Beach, Florida. New Yorker work:
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 2017: The Television Issue
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I can think of no better way to kick-off The New Yorker’s very first “Television Issue” than with a cover by Bruce Eric Kaplan who is in the New Yorker/Television Hall of Fame because he wrote the famous and exceptionally funny
Read more50 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Every so often I like to take a look at a random issue of The New Yorker from well before my time there, or well before my time, period. This issue, of April 29, 1967 is solidly in the former category. The New Yorker was not yet on my mind — I was in fact, just about to begin transitioning
Read moreNewest Addition to Ink Spill’s Library: Comically Correct
Courtesy of Danny Shanahan, this promotional booklet (offered with new New Yorker subscriptions?) from 1995 has been added to Ink Spill‘s Library. Of the many promo booklets produced by The New Yorker I’d never seen this one until today. Shown are the cover, the introductory
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