This is a doubled-up Spill due to journeying to Thurber country — the town of Columbus in the state of Ohio — for the first-ever Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art (presented Friday night along with the Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing).The awards ceremony will be held at the Columbus Art Museum. The Spill will report on its
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Beginnings Of Tilley In An Early Rea Irvin? When comics scholar, Mike Rhode, sent me the below 1917 two-panel drawing by Rea Irvin (more information here on the drawing), my eyes immediately went to the the dancing top-hatted fellow in the second panel. Something very familiar about the waistcoat, the collar, and of course the hat. He’s not Eustace Tilley,
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Some Recent Additions to The Spill Library In the past few weeks, a small crop of books came this way, a few of them are shown above. All have The New Yorker in common. Many were gifted to the Spill library, some were
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Every so often something turns up here at the Spill that makes me wonder What Else Is Out There?…Yesterday the editor in chief of Comics DC, Mike Rhode emailed me asking if I was aware of the Charles Addams syndicated strip, Out of This World, and he sent along this panel: ©
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