Friday Spill: Attempted Bloggery Looks At A Richard Taylor Cover Rough; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; A Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Attempted Bloggery Looks At A Richard Taylor Cover Rough From Attempted Bloggery, October 1, 2021, “Fear Of The Surreal: Richard Taylor Preliminary New yorker Cover Art”  One of the Spill‘s fave blogs takes a look at the evolution of a cover from the late great Richard Taylor. R. Taylor’s A-Z Spill entry:  Richard Taylor (self portrait from Meet the Artist) Born in

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Thurber Thursday: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: From Attempted Bloggery: Sam Cobean & Richard Taylor Drambuie Ads

Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this:      —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the

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Tuesday Spill: New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel With Liza Donnelly, Amy Hwang, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, & Emma Allen; “New Yorker Luminaries” From Dick Buchanan’s Files; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

  New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel “Very Funny Ladies” With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, And Finck           It’s back! Amidst all the other panels and appearances this Fall there’s a virtual must-see panel for fans of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. “Very Funny Ladies” with Liza Donnelly (whose updated history of New Yorker women cartoonists, Very Funny

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Friday Spill: Newest Additions To The Spill Library; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Frank Cotham Interviewed On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

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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