A Moose In The Hoose Here’s a fun looking book I ran into online yesterday. Had never seen or heard of it before. The author, Frank Sullivan, and illustrator, George Price, are familiar, of course. Mr. Price had quite a side career as an illustrator (the Spill library has a number of the books he illustrated, but not this one).
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, October 9, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker has gone through a number of survivable events in its 92 year history. It nearly folded in its first six months of existence, but survived when Raoul Fleischmann, its original backer, suddenly turned white knight, decided to pump more
Read moreFave Bookstore Find of the Day; Nice Price At a Price
Fave Bookstore Find of the Day The other day while browsing around my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn, with two New Yorker pals (John Cuneo and Danny Shanahan) the above book caught my eye because of the Thurber drawing. My eyes widened when I realized I had never seen this particular book before (or had I?). It turned out
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 13: The Rambler Campaign
Continuing on with the Spill’s series of advertising work by New Yorker Cartoonists (research and scans courtesy of Warren Bernard of SPX) is this great campaign by Rambler from the late 1950s. Some of the best of the best in the New Yorker’s stable were involved: William Steig, George Price, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Barney Tobey, Chon Day, and Otto Soglow
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