Over the years just a few Armed Services Editions (ASEs) have found their way into the Spill library. Until the other day, when I decided to look through the entire list of ASEs, I was not aware of all the Thurber books produced in the series. Below: I’ve included the two books he co-authored (but have not included The New
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Fave Photo Of The Week 2024 Hall of Fame inductee Steve Brodner posted this photo from last night’s Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Awards dinner. Left to right: Joe Ciardiello, Edward Sorel, Liza Donnelly, James McMullan, Rick Meyerowitz, and Victor Juhasz _______________________________________________________________________ Some New Yorker Folks At Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) CXC is a “free comics art and
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…The New Yorker Reporter At Large (An Armed Service Edition) The latest addition to the Spill library, The New Yorker Reporter At Large, is the third addition to the Spill‘s New Yorker Armed Services Edition collection. It was published in March of 1946 (the Spill ‘s Armed Services Edition collection also contains books by Dorothy
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As I continue my revisit through Harrison Kinney’s massive biography of James Thurber, I continue to find moments I overlooked the first time I read it. A for instance: On page 853, Mr. Kinney quotes E.B. White’s review of The Thurber Carnival in PM (the issue of January 4, 1945): “The book contains the picture of the woman speaking into
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