The Blank Piece Of Paper Awaits One of the constants here every morning at Spill headquarters (besides the sun rising) is the site you see above that greets me at my desk (it’s really not a desk — it’s a table): a blank piece of paper, along with my Rapidograph. The small stack of paper rests on a 1964 edition
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Seven years ago I received an anonymous gift through the mail: an interesting copy of Peter Arno’s 1931 collection of drawings, Hullabaloo. The book was obviously well-loved as it included a stack of clipped drawings (mostly cartoons) and glued-in clippings (cartoons by Arno, some by his New Yorker colleagues). One of the pasted-in clippings is a piece by Selma
Read moreWe’re now into the second week of a New Yorker double issue, dated January 4th & 11th. The Monday Tilley Watch, usually appearing here on this day, will return next week, when the issue of January 18th appears. In the meantime here’s a Spill Cartoon Detective piece. The Tale Of The Three Barlows…Or Is It Two Barlows? This little tale
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Something to leaf through (if you have a copy) while nail-biting: Need more distraction? Visit The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank and enter “election” in the search box…pages and pages of merriment. Here’s an edgy Peter Arno cover from 1940: _______________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Amy Hwang Draws Snails Next up in this series of virtual visits is The New Yorker‘s cartoon
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