Starting off the first week of the new year with an early Thurber Thursday…so it’s Thurber Tuesday… After approximately fifty years of collecting Thurber, you might think the Spill library would be in the vicinity of complete, Thurber-wise (not that there really is such a thing as complete). But one major title has always been missing. Thinking about why it
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Book Launch For Sorel’s “Profusely Illustrated” Lotsa laffs at last night’s book launch for Edward Sorel’s Profusely Illustrated (published by Knopf) at the Century Association, just a skip and a jump from The New Yorker‘s old offices at 25 West 43rd Street. This cartoonist, accompanied by New Yorker colleagues Liza Donnelly and John Cuneo, dipped into the old building to
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Gil Roth Interviews Will McPhail The fab Gil Roth, who has interviewed numerous New Yorker contributors (including this one) speaks with Will McPhail. Mr. McPhail (below) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. His new book is IN, out now. Visit Mr. McPhail’s website here. Go here for the list of Comics and Cartoonists interviewed by Mr. Roth. ________________________________________________
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Video Of Interest: Jules Feiffer For the next two weeks you can see, for free(!) this just released film, Jules Feiffer: A Conversation. The film is followed by a zoom panel moderated by Michael Tisserand (who interviews Mr. Feiffer in the film) Liza Donnelly, Keith Knight, and Matt Wuerker. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In
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