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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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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