Confused by this week’s cover? Feel like you saw it before? Well if you were reading The New Yorker in 1927, you did see it before. Below: the cover as published this week, and how it originally appeared. The 2018 cover seems to have been ever-so-slightly cropped along the left and right edges, with the artist’s signature moved closer to
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First Look: The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons
A review copy of the slip-cased two volume New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons has landed here at the Spill. After sitting with it a day I’ve some initial thoughts: The very first impression, before the shrink wrap was removed, was how heavy the set is ( 14.9 pounds). An earlier tome, 2004’s Complete New Yorker Cartoons of The New Yorker
Read moreExhibit of Interest: Mary Petty; Article of Interest: New Yorker Cover Artist John Cuneo; The Tilley Watch Online; And Even More E. Simms Campbell
Exhibit of Interest: Mary Petty What fun! 30 Mary Petty watercolors on exhibit at the Huntsville (Alabama) Museum of Art: The Life and Art of Mary Petty. _______________________________________________________________________ Article of Interest: New Yorker Cover Artist John Cuneo From HV1, April 11, 2018, “Dancing Bears and John Cuneo’s Portable Therapy” — this good read about the fascinating Mr. Cuneo. _______________________________________________________________________ The
Read more50 Years Ago This Week: Peter Arno’s Last New Yorker Cartoon
Every so often the Spill likes to take a look at the last cartoon published by one of the magazine’s artists. This week it’s a drawing by Peter Arno — the cartoonist the New Yorker‘s Roger Angell called “the magazine’s first genius.” I won’t go on and on here about why Arno is one of the magazine’s greatest — some
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