Pub Day For Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists It’s the “official” pub day for Liza Donnelly’s new edition of her 2005 classic Funny Ladies. This new edition is a must-have for any cartoon-centric library (I’d say that even if I wasn’t married to Ms. Donnelly). This morning I reached out to Ms. Donnelly, currently in Manhattan,
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The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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