Fave Photo Of The Week: A Group Of West Coast New Yorker Cartoonists From sunny California, this sunny group photo: from the left: Theora Kvitka, Tommy Siegel, Erika Sjule, Lila Ash, Ariel Rucker Ehlers, Ivan Ehlers, John McNamee — My thanks to Erika Sjule for permission to use the photo _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Auctioned Richter And
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Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection It’s taken awhile to get hold of a dust jacketed copy of William Steig’s very first cartoon collection, Man About Town but finally one has arrived here at Spill headquarters. Published in 1932 by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith; hard cover, unpaginated, on good paper stock that has held the
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The end of summer means different things to different folks. One of the things it means to me is a new crop of books coming out by New Yorker artists. Over the past month or so the Spill has mentioned various early release covers and/or spoken of advanced copies received. I thought it would be fun this weekend before
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P.C. Vey Interviewed On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Here’s the very latest episode of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast…this one with guest, P.C. Vey. Enjoy! Mr. Vey began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993 (in the episode you’ll learn he was contributing ideas — Charles Addams’s name pops up — previous to his own drawings showing up in
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