Time to look into one of the boxes of materials generously donated to the Spill back in May of this year. Today’s focus: a boxed set of prints by The New Yorker cover artist, Edna Eicke. A recent query sent this way about a framed Eicke print on Ebay reminded me that the set needed a moment here. First, a
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Roxie Munro’s Inside-Outside Dinosaurs At The Eric Carle Museum An exhibit of interest at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art: Inside-Outside Dinosaurs: Creating A Book With Roxie Munro. Ms. Munro has contributed 14 covers (and counting) to The New Yorker, with her first appearing November 9, 1981. I’m showing you one of her covers (a personal fave!) below
Read moreThe third early release New Yorker cover in a month — surely a sign of the times. With the news on overdrive these days I again urge the magazine to consider running an online Daily Cover much as they run a Daily Cartoon and Daily Shouts. In next week’s cover, Eric Drooker recalls the iconic (c.1930) photo of Grand Central
Read moreThis sad news via WWD, September 14, 2019: “Illustrator Pierre Le-Tan Dies” To the left is Mr. Le-Tan’s first New Yorker cover. Below, his entry on the A-Z. Pierre Le-Tan Born, Neuilly-sur-seine, France, 1950. Died, September 17, 2019. New Yorker work: one drawing, June 14, 1976. Although his one cartoon technically qualifies him as a member of the Spill’s One
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