= An Art Spiegelman Documentary Disaster Is My Muse is an in-progress documentary film about Art Spiegelman, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. Visit the film’s website here where you can view a “sizzle reel” that includes another New Yorker contributor, Robert Crumb, as well as the magazine’s current cover editor, Francoise Mouly. –above photo
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I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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Book Of Interest: If “Mr. Brunelle” Was Drawn By… I came across this book on Facebook the other day. Intrigued by the cover art, I contacted the author and artist, Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr.. Mr. Brunelle told me: “I am a political cartoonist, whose strip Mr.
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Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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