Personal History: A Tilley Box Under The Tree It’s not unusual that our family here at Spill headquarters is New Yorker-centric. Years ago, my New Yorker colleague (& wife), Liza Donnelly and I told CBS News that our kids grew up speaking cartoon. They can usually ID which cartoonist we’re talking about just by hearing the cartoonist’s first name: For
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Happy 92nd Edward Frascino! All best birthday wishes to the terrific New Yorker artist, Edward Frascino, born on this day in the Bronx (“near the zoo”). Mr. Frascino’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of September 4, 1965. He is the magazine’s
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We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
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Early Release Of Next Week’s New Yorker Cover. Cover story with artist Malika Favre here. _______________________________________________________________________________ Edward Frascino’s 1957 NYC Eyewitness Drawing Of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip The Spill is grateful to the great New Yorker artist, Edward Frascino for sending and allowing us to post his spectacular drawing below. Along with the drawing, Mr. Frascino wrote: “In 1957
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