Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound New Yorker Profile Alerted by a comrade-in-finding-interesting-New Yorker-stuff-on-Ebay (thank you, Steve Stoliar), I’ve ended up with an unusual (and inexpensive) bound volume of three issues of The New Yorker, dated, as you see in the photo, June 12th, 19th, 26th, 1943. At first glance, seeing it listed on Ebay, I’d no idea
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The Cover: The second cover in a matter of weeks by newcomer (to The New Yorker) Grace Lynne Haynes. Read a Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: Six cartoons by six cartoonists. As you can see by the graphic, there’s a bit of Tilley Trivia to be squeezed out of this lineup. I believe (and as always I ask that
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Back in February of 1996, the New Yorker celebrated its 71st anniversary with a “Special Women’s Issue.” Of the 23 cartoonists in the issue, 20 were men. The three women cartoonists were Victoria Roberts, Roz Chast, and Liza Donnelly. The cover, a
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I can think of no better way to kick-off The New Yorker’s very first “Television Issue” than with a cover by Bruce Eric Kaplan who is in the New Yorker/Television Hall of Fame because he wrote the famous and exceptionally funny
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