Cover Group When SPX’s Warren Bernard visited Spill headquarters recently, one of the topics of conversation was illustrated books. I mentioned that, at one time, long ago, I began collecting books
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Tuesday Spill: Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons: Video Of Interest: Victor Varnado; A 1939 Thumbnail Bio Of John Held, Jr.; “Get A Real Job” Podcast With Joe Dator
Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Monday’s Daily Cartoonist: Kate Curtis, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016, on eating out again. Tuesday’s Daily Cartoonist: Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020, on doorman & door-rodent. _________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Victor Varnado Here’s a fun video from Victor Varnado, who began contributing his cartoons
Read moreThurber Thursday: New Yorker Cartoonist Stamps; Article Of Interest: Steinberg; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
I came across this block of Thurber stamps while looking through a bag of materials saved from an early 1990s trip to Columbus Ohio. Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan and yours truly attended an exhibit of cartoons at The Thurber House and gave a talk. It made me wonder how many other New Yorker cartoonists have been honored with
Read moreWho, Darrow?
Lately, while rummaging around through my own New Yorker history, I’ve spent a lot of time re-reading what other contributors had to say about the transitional period of Shawn to Gottlieb to Brown to Remnick. There were a number of books, all published in the late 1990s, early 2000s: Renata Adler’s Gone, Lillian Ross’s Here But Not Here, Ved Mehta’s
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