“The Little Man” 1927 was a very big year for James Thurber. The February 26th issue carried his very first New Yorker appearances (two pieces of verse in the same issue).
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Tag: Ilonka Karasz
Weekend Spill: An Ilonka Karasz Updike Cover; The Tilley Watch Online, January 16-20, 2023; Some John Held, Jr. Dust Jackets
An Ilonka Karasz Updike Cover Last night, idly looking over the spines of John Updike books in the Spill library, I came upon his Olinger Stories, a 1964 paperback collection I’ve had for ages (and haven’t re-read for ages). As it’s a paperback, it never was slotted chronologically — I placed it horizontally, resting it on the hardcover Updike books.
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Weekend Spill: Happy Halloween!: An Ink Spill Interview Compendium; The Tilley Watch Online, October 25-29, 2021; Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery
Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.
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Wednesday Spill: Addams Darker Work; A New Yorker State Of Mind On Two 1932 Summertime Issues; New Book: “How To Think Funny And Make Cartoons Even If You Can’t Draw”; Exhibit Of Interest…Felipe Galindo (feggo)
Addams Darker Work From Den Of Geek, October 5, 2021, “Charles Addams Cartoons Are Far Darker Than The Addams Family Films” Linda Davis, whose Addams biography comes out on the 19th of this month in a new edition, talks about the Addams Family films and more. Charles Addams A-Z Spill entry: Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey,
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