________________________________________________________________ It appears that this long-ago rejected cover painting is going to be a Spill Easter thing. ___________________________________________________________ An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism From The New Yorker and other Magazines, coming our way in July from Penguin/Random House. This from the publisher: A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists
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Film Of Interest: Wes Anderson’s New Yorker-ish “The French Dispatch”; Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly On Oscar’s Red Carpet; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); New York Times Piece Of Interest: Tina Brown
Film Of Interest: Wes Anderson’s New Yorker-ish “The French Dispatch” From The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk, February 11, 2020, “A Look At Wes Anderson’s New, New Yorker-Inspired Film” — this should be fun. Above: the poster, which resembles a certain magazine’s cover. Read more here. Above: Bill Murray as the magazine’s editor, Arthur Howitzer, Jr. — a character “inspired by
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The arrival of a New Yorker original here at Spill headquarters is always a “moment.” Yesterday’s addition to the Spill collection — an I. Klein original published in the June 19, 1926 issue — instantly became the second oldest New Yorker drawing in the house (the earliest is an Alice Harvey cartoon, published October 25, 1925). Here’s how Mr. Klein’s
Read moreFrom The Archives: The Humble New Yorker Art Department Office Supply; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Here’s a fun oddity: the stamp/envelope moistener that once sat in The New Yorker‘s Art Department at the magazine’s 25 West 43rd Street address. The moistener, sold by Chicago’s Wilson Jones Company, seems have been manufactured in the 1940s. It was in use at The New Yorker until 1991, when the magazine moved south across 43rd Street to modern digs
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