First And Last: Mary Petty Continuing a once-in-a-blue-moon Spill series, “First and Last” looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker contribution, and their very last. On this Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to take a look at the late great Mary Petty’s first and last (her A-Z entry appears below the drawings). Her very first New
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Edward Graham, Discovered, Added To The A-Z Looking through (way way) back issues of The New Yorker seems a distant cousin of panning for gold. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone through an issue from the past without finding something that stirs up my brain cells. After coming across the mystery cartoonist mentioned here yesterday, I came upon another cartoonist
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