Happy 95th, Ed Frascino! Wishing the terrific New Yorker artist, Ed Frascino a very very happy birthday. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965 (his debut cartoon appeared in the issue of September 4th). Read the Spill’s November 2020 interview with him here. Below: A Frascino New Yorker drawing, published November 21 1988 _________________________________________________________________________ The
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The Gray Lady Covers The New York Public Library New Yorker Centennial Exhibit From The New York Times, March 5, 2025, “A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives” In an (almost) otherwise fine article devoted to the New York Public Library exhibit “A Century Of The New Yorker” it amazes me (and saddens me) that the magazine’s
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Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
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On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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