A 1972 Cartoon Collection Here’s a paperback cartoon collection I’d never seen until yesterday. Lee Lorenz, the late great New Yorker artist and art/cartoon editor, provided the cover drawing. The scans come to us via a good friend of the Spill, Steve Stoliar. My thanks to him for sharing. Published in 1972, by Dell, with “all funds realized from the
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Drawing Snow In these parts, a hundred miles north of Times Square, we’ve finally received some snow in the past few days. It’s a reasonable amount — not enough to cause “problems.” Standing outside this morning looking at the woods, I noticed our stone rabbit had a nice little hat of the white stuff. Seeing this reminded me of what
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The New Yorker Issue Of January 1, 1979 Yesterday, while in the Spill library, I closed my eyes for a moment and grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf. By happy accident, I selected January-February 1979. Opening to the first issue I saw this: Although there have been many many great New Yorker New Year’s covers
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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