Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 3-7, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, J.A.K., Evan Lian, Jeremy Nguyen, Bob Eckstein. Daily Shouts Cartoonists: Liana Finck, J.A.K.. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook ______________________________________________________________________ A Few Thoughts On Peter Arno, Born 118 Years Ago
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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A long overdue reorganization of a part of the Spill’s archives began yesterday. It began as any reorganization has to begin: with moving things (books mostly) from one place to another. The above were facing a wall on a metal revolving bookcase. I hadn’t seen some of them in awhile (the revolving bookcase does not easily revolve). The small book
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