Starting off the first week of the new year with an early Thurber Thursday…so it’s Thurber Tuesday… After approximately fifty years of collecting Thurber, you might think the Spill library would be in the vicinity of complete, Thurber-wise (not that there really is such a thing as complete). But one major title has always been missing. Thinking about why it
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The October 22, 1932 Issue A fun Sunday read from the always informative blog, A New Yorker State OF Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. The issue’s cover is by Peter Arno. Mr. Arno’s entry on the A-Z: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New
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Event Of Interest: Ken Krimstein At The Strand An excellent time & place to catch Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000. When I Grow Up is receiving rave reviews and has landed on a number of best of the year lists. Link here to Ken Krimstein’s website. _________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Edward Sorel
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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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