A Ralph Barton Art Supply Ad (With Peter Arno) Back in the Roaring Twenties, Pelican Ink reminded Ralph Barton (and New Yorker readers) that its ink was available in the U.S.A.. The ad below shows a passage from a New Yorker piece on Ralph Barton, Through The Magnifying Glass (by Charles G.Shaw) from the magazine’s November 5, 1927 issue. The
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Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day. We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue. Visit Maggie
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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 Miscellany Looking over items on my desktop this morning (not my “real” desktop — the one on my computer) I came across various items I’ve been saving for future Spill posts. I thought, hey wait a sec! Posting these as group is a Spill post. So here, in no particular order, and with little to connect them other than they’re
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