A friend of the Spill who specializes in sending me (scans of) eye-popping books off his shelves, recently sent this in. It’s not the Dr. Seuss illustrated cover that stirred things up around here, or that the book, published in 1933, is by Frank Sullivan (sorry, Seuss, and sorry, Sullivan): No, the exciting thing about this particular copy is what
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Kuper’s MAD Cover Word has reached the Spill that Peter Kuper‘s first MAD cover appears on the magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Mr. Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011, has been a MAD contributor for 26 years, writing and illustrating one of that magazine’s iconic features, Spy vs. Spy. Mr. Kuper tells the Spill that he
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen & Suerynn Lee “How To Draw Dysfunctional Relationships” is the latest in a series of videos featuring The New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen (left) and one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Suerynn Lee, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019. _______________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Today’s: Maddie
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A Bacon Postcard From a collector par excellence, this scan just sent in to the Spill: an undated (signed) postcard by Peggy Bacon. Only further info: Whitney Studio Club. Dry Point Etching. Here’s the Spill‘s Peggy Bacon A-Z entry: Peggy Bacon ( Self portrait above from Bacon’s Off With Their Heads!) Born May 2, 1895, Ridgefield, Ct.. Died January 4,
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New Addition Of An Old Edition I love it when two New Yorker folks team up in one book, such as this latest addition to the Spill‘s library: That’s New York! (Macy-Masius, 1927 ) by writer, Morris Markey and cartoonist/illustrator, Johan Bull. Bull and Markey began contributing to the magazine in its first year. In a 1937 letter to James
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