Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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A Great Cartoon I’ve a shortlist of remembered cartoons in my brain that never ever fail to amuse and inspire. Cartoons such as these are often referred to as “evergreens.” They’re not tied into current events, or a fad, or a word or phrase of the moment. I’m not going to list my favorite evergreens here, but will put
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Next up in the Spill‘s First & Last: a look at James Mulligan’s first New Yorker cartoon, and…well, you know. Mr. Mulligan’s a bit of a mystery to me. You would think that for someone — in this case a veteran New Yorker cartoonist — with 501 published cartoons in the magazine, there might be, at the least, an interview
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library Two additions this past week, a book by Nicholson Baker, and a book about death, edited by Mort Gerberg. First up, Mr. Baker’s Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper, published in 2001. I’m showing
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