Monday Spill Last week’s New Yorker was a double issue, dated September 1 & 8, 2025, meaning no new issue to page through. On this Labor Day in the 100th year anniversary of The New Yorker it seemed like a fun idea to take a look at the magazine’s very first cover published around Labor Day of 1925 (the actual
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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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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If you ever have an opportunity to get hold of the March 1934 Fortune, you’re in for a treat. The issue contains the cleverly titled piece, “The New Yorker” which goes on for quite awhile batting around the then nine year old magazine. There are great photos and cartoons galore (the cartoons are gathered in two sections labeled “Fortune’s
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