Monday Spill Last week’s New Yorker was a double issue, dated September 1 & 8, 2025, meaning no new issue to page through. On this Labor Day in the 100th year anniversary of The New Yorker it seemed like a fun idea to take a look at the magazine’s very first cover published around Labor Day of 1925 (the actual
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Here’s to you, New York Public Library, in honor of and thanks for your current exhibit celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary, A Century of The New Yorker. Below are some of the magazine’s earliest drawings featuring the New York Public Library lions, Patience and Fortitude . Above: a spectacular Barbara Shermund spot drawing from the issue of February 2,
Read moreThanks to Stephen Nadler of Attempted Bloggery for alerting the Spill to the new Swann catalog, which contains an abundance of New Yorker art. A highlight, shown above, is Peter Arno’s New Yorker cover of April 4, 1964. Here’s what it looked like as the published cover: Other New Yorker work offered by Charles Addams, William Steig, Charles Barsotti, Arnie
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