A Group: Lorenz, McKay, Stevenson, Bull, Fougasse, Duffy Here’s Group #3 of a series of semi-randomly selected pieces from the Spill archives (okay, okay, I do put some thought into the group). From the top left, an assortment of pages of famous quotes, with hand written humorous comments by Lee Lorenz. He seemed to be starting on an idea for
Read more“The Table Where We Used To Sit To Work On Pictures” A photo I’ve seen before on the web, but never with the note attached you see above. The letter, signed “Jim” was written by the then art editor James Geraghty.* The “Gardner” it’s addressed to was likely Gardner Rea, one of the magazine’s artists. There’s another possibility: the “Gardner”
Read moreSteinberg’s 89 Foot Mural We recently learned of a fourteen foot mural Charles Addams executed (a good Addamsy word!); well here’s a piece in Cincinnati Magazine about an eighty-nine foot Steinberg mural. Wowzers. _________________________________________________________________________ Dick Buchanan’s Tip Of The Hat To Funny Ladies At The New Yorker Via Mike Lynch’s site: “From The Dick Buchanan Files: Women Cartoonists: Barbara Shermund,
Read morePeter Arno Singing & Playing Piano Was very pleased to see one of Stanley Kubrick’s Arno photos make it into The New York Times review of the Kubrick photo exhibit. The reviewer, Arthur Lubow, had this to say about the photo: A striking shot at the piano of Peter Arno, the New Yorker cartoonist and bon vivant, with eyes shut
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