Tuesday Spill: A New Yorker Miscellany

Once again going through issues of The New Yorker, chronologically (the last time I did it I was researching Peter Arno), I came across things I hadn’t noticed before (or had noticed but hadn’t saved). Here’re are just a few from my recent stroll through The New Yorker‘s past: I enjoyed this ad from the issue of December 21, 1929

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Weekend Spill: Video Of Interest…Frank Cotham; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024; Ads Using Cartoons In A 1948 Issue Of The New Yorker

Video Of Interest: Frank Cotham               From WKNO -TV,  “A Conversation With Frank Cotham.” Mr. Cotham’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of  December 13, 1993 (read a Spill piece about the 20th anniversary of that debut here). ____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024 An end of the

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