Starting off the first week of the new year with an early Thurber Thursday…so it’s Thurber Tuesday… After approximately fifty years of collecting Thurber, you might think the Spill library would be in the vicinity of complete, Thurber-wise (not that there really is such a thing as complete). But one major title has always been missing. Thinking about why it
Read moreContinuing a Spill New Year’s Day tradition…here’s a rejected cover idea from long long ago (1980s? 70s?…can’t recall, doesn’t matter). ____________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Looks At Rea Irvin’s New Year’s Art From Attempted Bloggery, “A Happy New Year From Rea Irvin” — a fun way to begin the year, with a survey of Rea Irvin New Year’s art, including a personal
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Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021, “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie
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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: Anthony Russo delivers a wonderful cover for this first issue of the new year (a double issue). The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Twenty cartoons, twenty cartoonists (the Spill counts duo efforts as one cartoonist). Duos: There’s
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