Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection A regular stop when I visit Northampton, Massachusetts is The Raven, a terrif used bookstore located just off of Main Street. Although the comic/comix/cartoon section is small, I ran across a number of interesting New Yorker-centric titles while there yesterday, including Steinberg At The New Yorker, Roz Chast’s Can
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Happy Birthday Sam Gross! The Spill wishes the great Sam Gross a Very Happy Day. Here’s his Spill A-Z entry: Sam Gross Born August 7, 1933, Bronx, NY. New Yorker work: August 23, 1969 -. Other than his work in The New Yorker Gross is probably best known for his work
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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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