New Addition Of An Old Edition I love it when two New Yorker folks team up in one book, such as this latest addition to the Spill‘s library: That’s New York! (Macy-Masius, 1927 ) by writer, Morris Markey and cartoonist/illustrator, Johan Bull. Bull and Markey began contributing to the magazine in its first year. In a 1937 letter to James
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W.B. Park, 1936-2021 Word has reached the Spill that the New Yorker cartoonist W.B. (William Bryan) Park has passed away. According to his obit on Legacy.com, he died on January 2nd of this new year. Born in Sanford, Florida in 1936, his first New Yorker drawing, bearing his notable scattered signature (above), appeared in the issue of July 13, 1981
Read moreI’ve always worked at home, sometimes in a dedicated corner of the living room, sometimes using the arm of any old comfortable chair as a desk. But for many years I worked in a converted 6′ x 8′ laundry room. My desk faced a wall, part of which is shown above. One day, after about twenty years of working in
Read moreHere’s an interesting read, published in 1967 by Little, Brown. Corey Ford’s The Time Of Laughter: A Sentimental Chronicle of the Twenties — The Humor and the Humorists. Ford will be forever remembered (I hope!) as the fellow who gave name to the New Yorker‘s top hatted butterfly inspecting dandy, Eustace Tilley. Here’s Ford talking about naming Tilley: “The New
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