Friday’s Spill: Upcoming Exhibit of Interest Includes Work By Peter Porges; A New Podcast From Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw; From Dick Buchanan: New Yorker Cartoonists Published Elsewhere, 1937 -1964

Upcoming Exhibit Includes Work By Peter Porges The Austrian Cultural Forum New York has announced an exhibit, “Three With A Pen: Lily Renee, Bil Spera, and Paul Peter Porges” March 11, 2021 – September 23, 2021. You can watch a “teaser” for the exhibit here (the screenshot above taken from the clip). Mr. Porges’s A-Z Spill entry: Peter Porges (photo

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James Thurber, Cartoon Critic; William Steig Drawings At Auction; Meet The Artist (1943): Gluyas Williams

James Thurber, Cartoon Critic On a recent search through Thurber biographies in the Spill library I happened upon a Thurber letter I’d forgotten about. Written to Harold Ross, and dated October 20, 1941, it appears in the mother ship of all Thurber biographies, Harrison Kinney’s twelve hundred and thirty-eight page Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995). Thurber, unhappy

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