A 1972 Cartoon Collection Here’s a paperback cartoon collection I’d never seen until yesterday. Lee Lorenz, the late great New Yorker artist and art/cartoon editor, provided the cover drawing. The scans come to us via a good friend of the Spill, Steve Stoliar. My thanks to him for sharing. Published in 1972, by Dell, with “all funds realized from the
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Sempe Indoors & Outdoors Exhibit In New York City From The French Institute, news of an exhibit, “Signature Sempe” coming to New York City this month, featuring original art in their gallery as well as art on the street. Mr. Sempe, who died in August of 2022, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978. (His Wikipedia entry here). _________________________________________________________________________ Peter
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Back on the very last day of 2020 I wrote about John Updike’s Thurber dog. Here’re some edited excerpts: _____________________________________________________________________________ For those of us who treasure Thurber’s art, there is I would suggest, nothing more wonderful than a Thurber drawn dog. In Updike’s Introduction to Lee Lorenz’s The World of William Steig, he tells us that in 1944, when he
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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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