Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” A boffo opening reception last night at The Society of Illustrators for their Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit. Over 500 folks jammed into the Society (a record for any event ever held there). Above is a group photo (spliced together from a video taken by
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Tale Blazer’s Edition of Thurber’s “The Greatest Man In The World” And “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Two of James Thurber’s New Yorker stories, “The Greatest Man In The World” and “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” back-to-back in the form of a 1979 teaching/learning publication, recently came this way courtesy of the fab
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: bicyclists The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (not including the caption contest cartoonists). Ed Steed is this week’s Spot artist, and Liana Finck has a Sketchbook. No newbies. One duo, that we know of (the Spill
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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