Jason Chatfield’s Substack Jason Chatfield (the Spill‘s Sports correspondent) has a new Substack, “New York Cartoons.” It leads off with “Coming To America” — fun (free!) interesting writing (and more) from Mr. Chatfield who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. You can subscribe here. ___________________________________________________________________ 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker I keep a list of all
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One of the most recent additions to the Spill library is Steinberg’s The Discovery Of America. Although the book was published in 1992, it took this long to get around to adding it to the cartoon library. Why it took 30 years, I don’t know. I’ve added a number of Steinberg books within that time — perhaps I thought
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— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject. James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker
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