_______________________________________________________ Thurber Thursday On A Friday [Thurber Thursday was delayed until today because of the passing of Robert Gottlieb] Regular Spill readers might recall that I enjoy accidentally running across “different” covers for Thurber’s books. Today I came across a UK edition of In A Word, a book written by Margaret Ernst, with drawings by Thurber. Amazing that after
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 5-9, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ivan Ehlers, Sarah Kempa, Felipe Galindo, Brooke Bourgeois, Ben Schwartz, Evan Lian. Daily Shouts: Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley), Ivan Ehlers. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “A Little Indictment Music” __________________________________________________________________________
Read moreBruce McCall…1935-2023 Bruce McCall, who contributed more than 80 covers to The New Yorker (and as many humor pieces) passed away today at age 87, according to The New York Times. Mr. McCall’s work was also closely associated with the National Lampoon. Mr. McCall’s and David Letterman’s This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) —
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Mad‘s Al Jaffee…1921-2023 The Spill rarely goes out of its New Yorker-centric orbit, but I simply cannot ignore the passing of Al Jaffee, “King of The Mad Magazine Fold-In,” (according to The New York Times) who died yesterday at age 102. I know that Mr. Jaffee made a run at The New Yorker at some point (or points) in his
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