Rake Leaves Or Organize Back Issues Of The New Yorker? This is the time of year for raking leaves. Instead, this year, I decided to finally gather in one place (the Spill cartoon library) all the back issues of The New Yorker that are here, there, and nearly everywhere around Spill headquarters. This need to organize came out of a
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A Couple Of Signed Steinbergs One of the many fun things Attempted Bloggery posts are signed books by cartoonists, often with a sketch by the artist (or artists). Here are two posts in a row with Steinberg collections signed by the great man himself, with additional art. Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat,
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The Disappearing Irvin Clouds If you overlap the covers of the 1980, 1981, and 1982 New Yorker anniversary issues (such as I’ve done for you above) you’ll notice Rea Irvin’s clouds disappear as those years go by. When the magazine shrunk by a half inch in 1981, it lost half its clouds along the top, and by the next year
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From The Washington Post, October 15, 2020, “In A Sacred Place: How New Yorker Cartoonist Liza donnelly Came To Work In Norman Rockwell’s Studio” Ms. Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. Visit her website here. ______________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: J.A.K. From ABC News, “New Yorker Cartoonist Opens Up About His Struggles With OCD” Mr. K. began contributing to
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Wow! What A Cover On one of my daily Ebay hunts for bound volumes of New Yorkers, the photo above got my attention. From a volume containing June 11th — September 10, 1960 issues, the seller chose to showcase the Arthur Getz cover shown here. Mr. Getz holds the record as most prolific New Yorker cover artist of all time
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