Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
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A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
Read moreCuneo’s Klam Drawings What fun! New Yorker cover artist and illustrator, John Cuneo, has supplied illustrations for Matthew Klam’s latest book, Who Is Rich?: A Novel ; what’s fun, besides Mr. Cuneo’s work — called “…darkly humorous…” in The Washington Post’s review of the book — is that the novel’s main character is a…cartoonist. Here’s how the
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