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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A Group: Lorenz, McKay, Stevenson, Bull, Fougasse, Duffy Here’s Group #3 of a series of semi-randomly selected pieces from the Spill archives (okay, okay, I do put some thought into the group). From the top left, an assortment of pages of famous quotes, with hand written humorous comments by Lee Lorenz. He seemed to be starting on an idea for
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First And Last: Mary Petty Continuing a once-in-a-blue-moon Spill series, “First and Last” looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker contribution, and their very last. On this Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to take a look at the late great Mary Petty’s first and last (her A-Z entry appears below the drawings). Her very first New
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