Happy 95th, George Booth! Our very best wishes to New Yorker cartoon god, George Booth! The Spill‘s George Booth entry: George Booth Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat (Dodd, Mead, 1975), Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead, 1976), Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth (Congdon
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Latest ToonStack Posted ToonStack is where you’ll find a weekly gathering of cartoons on a theme by (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists. This week it’s “Into The Thick Of It” (cartoons, according to this week’s editor & contributor, Shelby Lorman, about “The Wild”)… contributors include Ellis Rosen, Hilary Campbell, Sofia Warren, Jason Chatfield, Amy Kurzweil, and Kendra Allenby. __________________________________________________________ Sipress Memoir
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Kids in Summer clothing at play on what looks like stryofoam snow among barren trees under pink clouds — or are they pink blossoms? (yes, they are blossoms, according to the title given to the
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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