Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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Here’s a terrif fifteen minute video focused on the recent collaboration between John Kascht and Bill Watterson on their book, The Mysteries (Andrews McMeel). — My thanks to John for bringing this to my attention. Visit John Kascht’s website here. More on The Mysteries video here. _________________________________________________________________ Two books from Liana Finck are on their
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Michael Updike Looks For A Cartoon Michael Updike contacted the Spill recently in search of a multi-panel New Yorker drawing, published in the 1970s, similar to the one (shown below) his father, John Updike, did for The Harvard Lampoon in the early 1950s. After a thorough search through The New Yorker’s database the only drawing I found that came
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Cover Group When SPX’s Warren Bernard visited Spill headquarters recently, one of the topics of conversation was illustrated books. I mentioned that, at one time, long ago, I began collecting books
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