A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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A New Yorker Cartoon Air Travel Slide Show Emma Allen, The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, presents a slide show of some of the magazine’s artists takes on flying. See it here! — Above: a snippet of the Jack Ziegler drawing included in the slide show. [I’m not flying today, but I am traveling on some of the nation’s highways (and
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A Couple Of Auctioned Arnos A Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery, reports on two fab Peter Arno drawings recently auctioned: “All Aboard The Elevator” and “Duet At The Organ” _________________________________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry… Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New York City. Died February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY. New Yorker work: 1925 -1968.
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In my current re-reading of Harrison Kinney’s massive (1,238 pages) Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times, I came across a short section devoted to Thurber’s opining, in a letter, on several cartoons in a particular issue of The New Yorker. Each time I had gone over this section in the past I wondered what issue Thurber was talking about.
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