Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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It is always a very happy day when a James Thurber original drawing arrives at Spill headquarters. I fell for the one shown below some weeks back. I’d never seen it before, and never seen one like it before. Thurber’s somewhat apprehensive man is so great. I loved the moon and the star. There was something oddly positive about
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Ebay Item Of Interest: Male Animal Program I don’t see these on Ebay all that often, so it deserves mentioning here. A really nice program for James Thurber and Elliot Nugent’s play, The Male Animal. James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: people walking on a sidewalk The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is Roz Chast,
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