Regular Spill readers are doubtless aware that Rea Irvin was The New Yorker’s first art supervisor (he’s sometimes referred to as its first “art director” or even “art editor” — but I’m not so sure that that last title is accurate. “Art Supervisor” has always seemed the best fit). Mr Irvin created the very first New Yorker cover of
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A most interesting contribution to the Spill archive is a collection of WWII era New Yorker “Excerpts.” The Spill is so grateful to the donor for this wonderful addition. For some time, I had confused this run of publications with the New Yorker Pony editions, also produced during the war, thinking they were part of the Pony run. But they
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A 1951 NYU Parody Issue Of The New Yorker What began with The New Yorker parodying itself (an in-office publication via Rea Irvin featuring a silhouette of Harold Ross in Eustace Tilley’s place, looking at Alexander Woollcott instead of a butterfly) carried on through the decades. (The Spill has a copy of Lois Long‘s
Read moreA Couple Of Hamilton Roughs I believe I’m on record somewhere (here maybe?) saying how much I enjoy cartoonists’s rough drawings almost as much as their finished work. And so it was lots of fun “winning” two William Hamilton pieces a week ago on Ebay (up until then, the Spill collection had zero Hamilton originals). Although these drawings have some
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