The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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Article Of Interest: Henry Martin The latest Princeton Alumni Weekly, with a terrif cover photo by Anne Hall Elser of Henry Martin, and this piece by Elisabeth Hulette Daugherty about Mr. Martin. Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin ( Pictured above. Photograph taken 1984) Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky. Died, June 30, 2020, Newtown, Pennsylvania. New Yorker work:
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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Jason Chatfield On Collaborating From Mr. Chatfield’s blog, January 26, 2021, “Thoughts On Having A Writing Partner” He began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Among the many feathers in Mr. Chatfield’s cap; he is President of The National Cartoonists Society. ________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Teresa Burns Parkhurst on the Founding Fathers. Ms. Parkhurst began
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