Here’s the Spill‘s fave day-after-Thanksgiving drawing. It was published in The New Yorker November 26, 2007. My thanks to Liza Donnelly for allowing me to show it here every year. ________________________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Remembering Edward Koren From The Boston Globe, November 24, 2023, “Remembering My Pal Of Pals, Edward Koren, Whose Second Art Was Friendship” by Nicholas Dawidoff
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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Fave Photo Of The Week This past Saturday, the one-and-only Edward Sorel asked a few people over to his home to raise a glass, and toast the great New Yorker artist, Edward Koren, who passed away in April. Mr. Sorel and Mr. Koren’s friendship spanned more than six decades. Also in attendance was Mr. Koren’s daughter, Sasha Koren, and two
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