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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Leading Up To Thurber A long-time habit of mine is re-reading (I’m tempted to call it re-studying as well). It began with comic books, and has continued on to this very day. I don’t re-read things I don’t enjoy — I just focus on the good stuff. In the small but excellent library of books devoted to The New Yorker‘s
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A 1987 Ad Thanking William Shawn From the This is News to Me Dept.: an ad in Variety, published February 4, 1987, signed by a dozen New Yorker luminaries, thanking William Shawn for his editorship of the magazine (he was editor from 1952 through 1987). This particular copy of the ad, found on Ebay, is, apparently, a print of the
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