Making my way around Ebay this morning, I came across the below (signed) photo of the late very great New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist, Helen Hokinson. “Mr. Ross” is, of course, Harold Ross, the fellow who invented The New Yorker Magazine. Helen Hokinson’s A-Z Entry: Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949,
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Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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Note: Hoping yesterday’s tech issue has been fixed! Some material (the Comic-Con book news) from the semi-posted-Saturday Spill is repeated here. The San Diego 2025 Comic-Con Souvenir Book…And an Editing Glitch Addressed The 2025 Comic-Con online-only Souvenir Book can be read here. I was honored to be asked to write a New Yorker cartoon-centric piece (“A Century of Ink
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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