A New Yorker Rarity Listed On Ebay I rarely mention the interesting New Yorker-centric things that turn up on Ebay, or other auction sites, but this particular book, What! No Pie Charts? deserves its moment in the Spill spotlight. As you see in the title page below, the text is by Corey Ford, the fellow who named Eustace Tilley. The
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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Faces & Facts Here’s a great little book I picked up quite a ways back during my research for the Peter Arno biography. Faces & Facts By And About 26 Contemporary Artists was privately printed in 1937 (just 526 copies) with an introduction by James Montgomery Flagg and “biographies” by Willis Birchman. Each biography is given a page, and opposite
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The Cover: Gayle Kabaker’s lone surfer seems to hit the right mood as we close in on Labor Day (the unofficial end of Summer?). Read a brief Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: There are two duos, one of them new to the magazine: Julia Leigh & Phillip Day. Sophie Lucido Johnson & Sammi Skolmoski, the other duo made their
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