Reminder: Paul Karasik At Rizzoli This Monday Paul Karasik will be speaking about, and signing, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy this Monday. Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here. _________________________________________________________ Gretchen Dow Simpson’s New York Times Obit The New York Times has published an obit for Gretchen
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A New Yorker Bound Volume, February – April 1978 Until this week, I’d never come across a New Yorker bound volume containing my first cartoon for the magazine (I found a volume sometime back containing Whitney Darrow, Jr.’s cartoon based on my idea — that drawing appeared in the issue of December 26, 1977).
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New Yorker Cover Artist Gretchen Dow Simpson: 1939 -2025 Sad news reached the Spill yesterday of the passing of Gretchen Dow Simpson. Ms. Simpson, who was 85, contributed 58 covers to the magazine from August 19, 1974 to June 7, 1993. During the mid-to-late 1970s when I began examining, cover-to-cover, each and every issue of The New Yorker, I became
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The Cover: It is always a treat to see a fellow cartoonist have a cover. This week is one of those weeks. Ed Steed returns with his fourth cover (he also did this week’s Spot drawings). Read art editor Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with him here. On first sight his cover recalled (minus all the flowers and whatevers) a cover by
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