A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
Read more“New Yorker State Of Mind” On The New Yorker’s First Day Of Legal Beer Issue A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, fills us in on the how The New Yorker dealt with the return of legal beer in the Prohibition era. As always, much to look at, read,
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: a cat The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, twelve cartoonists. One duo that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Roland High, who is the 13th new addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable
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Mike Twohy Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mike Twohy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1980, is this week’s guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Shown in the screen grab above, clockwise from the upper left: Mike Twohy, and the hosts, Beth Lawler, Vin Coca, and Paul Nesja. Listen
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