From The Spill’s Sports Desk: Chatfield’s Update Jason Chatfield (New Yorker cartoonist & New Yorker softball team member) has filed this update from the field: After a thrashing at the hands of Forbes in Riverside Park last week (15 to 1… oof!) The New Yorker Softball team had a victory in Central Park against longtime rivals The Paris Review last
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From The Sports Desk: Jason Chatfield On The New Yorker vs New York Magazine — Jason Chatfield will be covering New Yorker baseball news for the Spill, sending in dispatches all season from the field. Here’s his report on the June 7th 2022 game: The New Yorker softball team played their first match for the season last night, albeit in
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A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: T-day The Cartoonists: Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast & Emily Flake share a “Sketchbook”). No duos that we know of, and one newbie, Max Wittert, who is the 18th new cartoonist brought in to the
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Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection It’s taken awhile to get hold of a dust jacketed copy of William Steig’s very first cartoon collection, Man About Town but finally one has arrived here at Spill headquarters. Published in 1932 by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith; hard cover, unpaginated, on good paper stock that has held the
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