My daily trips around the world wide web (I miss that usage) always include an Ebay stop. After a dry period of not-much-happening online a small number of original drawings by New Yorker artists have shown up. I’ll begin with Ed Fisher. We don’t see too many of his originals up for grabs, but at this writing there are
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Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.
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Gahan Wilson Exhibit In Sag Harbor From Sag Harbor Express, July 13, 2021, “The Macabre World Of Gahan Wilson On Full Display At Sag Harbor Whaling Museum” — Mr. Wilson, who passed away in 2019, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1976. Link to his website here. Link here to the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum website (with all the
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As we celebrate The New Yorker‘s 96th anniversary this week (and draw ever closer to the big 100th birthday in 2025), I thought it would be fun to look at a Spill post celebrating, or at least centering around Eustace Tilley, the magazine’s unofficial mascot. From the summer of 2017, here’s a short piece on the above paperweight: Finally,
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