Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Bemelmans’ My Life in Art Walking into my fave used bookstore this past Sunday I immediately spied Bemelmans My Life In Art on a shelf (probably saw it right away because it was much larger than the other books shelved around it). The Spill library has just a few of his books (other than a
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Harry Bliss has the cover). The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first drawing appeared in the issue of July 3, 1978. See the cartoons here (in
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Great Sunday Read: A New Yorker State Of Mind This week’s installment of David O’s A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine is particularly enjoyable. Read it here! –Cover by W. Cotton _______________________________________ Here’s Mr. Cotton’s A-Z Entry: William Cotton Born, 1880, Newport, Rhode Island; died, Sergeantsville, New Jersey, January 1958. 55 covers for
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Some Long Ago Cartoonist Covers I recently went on a little online adventure searching for Corey Ford covers by New Yorker artists. Along the way I also found a cover on a non-Ford title. I’m showing it here because it’s so striking. The John Riddell Murder Case by John Riddell. 1930. Cover artist: Miguel Covarrubias The Gazelle’s Ears by Corey
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