Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection; Speaking Of Books… A Steinberg Tip Of The Hat; A Limited Edition Print From Drew Dernavich And Nesja Press

  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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Weekend Spill: Happy Birthday, Sam Gross!; Tilley Watch Online, August 1-5, 2022; Personal History…New York, New York: If You Can Draw There, You Can Draw Anywhere; Catching Up With Two Favorite Blogs

      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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Tuesday Spill: Jason Chatfield’s Substack; 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker

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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