“Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights From The Collection Of Jules Feiffer” is on for June 20th. The collection contains numerous pieces by such New Yorker contributors as Charles Addams, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper, Carl Rose, Edward Sorel, Mischa Richter, Leo Cullum, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Wallace Morgan, Gahan Wilson, Alan Dunn, and John Held, Jr.. –above:
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Never Enough Steinberg And Sempe The pile of books above is within my line of sight from where I work. I realized today that the books almost arranged themselves this way. As each new Steinberg and Sempe title
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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Possibly my all-time fave New Yorker Valentine’s Day cover. From the one, the only, Charles Addams. Published February 16, 1981. It was used as the cover of his 1981 collection, Creature Comforts. I don’t remember many moments of being so wowed by a cover that the moment of first seeing it stayed with me (another such moment was when Steinberg’s
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