In the past couple of years it’s become more and more difficult to find affordable bound volumes of The New Yorker. For some reason, they are, in many cases, now hundreds of dollars per volume, and not $20 or $30 as they were for years when I built up the majority of the Spill‘s collection. The other day when I
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A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons & Covers Collection A relative in England recently brought over a package of New Yorker cartoons clipped by their father in the mid 1940s. The Spill has a few other New Yorker cartoon collections in its archives (one is in a scrapbook, another contains just New Yorker covers held in a 3 ring binder,
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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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