The generosity of friends of the Spill never fails to amaze me. A box arrived here yesterday chock full of New Yorker materials I’d never seen before. I’m showing just a couple of items (heck, I still haven’t shown the materials that were in the last treasure trove from the same donor). First, an array of exhibit cards (various years)
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Arno Changes His Mind Stephen Nadler’s latest Attempted Bloggery post, “Peter Arno’s Changing Point Of View” takes an interesting look at graphic decision-making by one of The New Yorker‘s grand masters. I love seeing alternate drawings of published work by cartoonists — sometimes the unpublished version appears “better” than the finish. Here’s a battered but beautiful Arno drawing from Mr.
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Newest Additions To The Spill Library This new addition to the spotty Spill collection of bound New Yorkers was a real treat to go through. Two Arno covers out of nine issues — he was on a hot streak in those post-war years. Memorable moments: early Steinberg drawings (captionless); a few “composite” Thurber drawings, and a number of captionless artist-in-the
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The latest addition to the Spill library is perhaps the rarest. Aces! — All Aces! produced in 1926, when The New Yorker was not yet two years old, is yet another hard cover book put out by the magazine’s business department, and the earliest I know of (Corey Ford’s The Making Of A Magazine, also produced in 1926, had its
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