Wednesday Spill: “Attempted Bloggery” On A Recently Auctioned Arno; Sarah Getz Guests On “The Illustration Department Podcast”; “A New Yorker State Of Mind” Dives Deep Into The Issue Of January 18, 1936

Attempted Bloggery On A Recently Auctioned Arno From Attempted Bloggery, January 20, 2026, “Peter Arno: A Bit Of Wisdom For Poffinger” Stephen Nadler, the fellow behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, and keen observer of NewYorkery art things auctioned, takes a look at a recent sale of a Peter Arno drawing that appeared in the magazine April 15, 1939.    

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma AllenĀ (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Tuesday Spill: That Was Then, This Is Now

This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon  (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is

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