First And Last: Mary Petty Continuing a once-in-a-blue-moon Spill series, “First and Last” looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker contribution, and their very last. On this Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to take a look at the late great Mary Petty’s first and last (her A-Z entry appears below the drawings). Her very first New
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As we’re in the second week of a double issue period, there are no new New Yorker cartoons to look at today. The Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday. A friend of the Spill has alerted me to a number of New Yorker “spot” drawings posted on Ebay in recent weeks. Spot drawings are those (usually) small drawings that
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Chast’s Embroidery From Threads Magazine, “Cartoonist Artist Roz Chast Draws With Needle And Thread” Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 1978. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________________________ Library Odds & Ends Okay, so these aren’t really “odd” but they are literally at the end of one of the Spill’s library shelves.
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A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons & Covers Collection A relative in England recently brought over a package of New Yorker cartoons clipped by their father in the mid 1940s. The Spill has a few other New Yorker cartoon collections in its archives (one is in a scrapbook, another contains just New Yorker covers held in a 3 ring binder,
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