A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen
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Since It’s Super Bowl Sunday… I’ve had but two football drawings in The New Yorker; I post one of them every Thanksgiving Day. Here’s the other one, published October 23, 2017… A New Yorker Cartoon Education Via The Classics Although I went to college, and
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Live Event Of Interest With Ali Fitzgerald From The University of Nebraska, “Comics and Coffee — Ali Fitzgerald” Ali Fitzgerald began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online is an end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brooke Bourgeois,
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An Ilonka Karasz Updike Cover Last night, idly looking over the spines of John Updike books in the Spill library, I came upon his Olinger Stories, a 1964 paperback collection I’ve had for ages (and haven’t re-read for ages). As it’s a paperback, it never was slotted chronologically — I placed it horizontally, resting it on the hardcover Updike books.
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