Next Week’s New Yorker Cover We haven’t seen an early released New Yorker cover for some time (they usually don’t appear until Monday morning). Here’s Eric Drooker’s for next week’s issue. Read more here. _________________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Liana Finck From The Comics Journal, May 26, 2022: “Liana Finck’s Skeptical Mythologizing” by Andrew Field. Ms.Finck began contributing to The New
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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Event Of Interest: Liana Finck & David Sipress In Conversation Two days in a row of noting a pairing of cartoonists! “Dreaming and Drawing: A Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonists Liana Finck and David Sipress” Liana finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. David Sipress began contributing to the magazine in 1998. Visit his
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Shellhase And Kraus On Attempted Bloggery A Spill fave, Attempted Bloggery discusses two original drawings by two New Yorker artists that rarely get the spotlight these days. Go here to see the Shellhase post and here to see the Kraus post. More: Shellhase and
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