Peggy Bacon’s First New Yorker Cartoon…And Last An unusual “First and Last” installment in that the last cartoon by this artist was her second New Yorker cartoon. In Peggy Bacon’s twenty-three years (1927-1950) with the magazine, her total number of contributions totaled forty-seven. Apart
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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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Of all the New Yorker Albums published, it is the first one that sends off the biggest charge when I spot it on a shelf (honestly, it’s not hard to miss. I have one of the above copies set on a shelf with its cover facing out). Over time I’ve ended up with the three you see above, plus, I
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A Bacon Postcard From a collector par excellence, this scan just sent in to the Spill: an undated (signed) postcard by Peggy Bacon. Only further info: Whitney Studio Club. Dry Point Etching. Here’s the Spill‘s Peggy Bacon A-Z entry: Peggy Bacon ( Self portrait above from Bacon’s Off With Their Heads!) Born May 2, 1895, Ridgefield, Ct.. Died January 4,
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