Out Today…Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons It’s pub day for Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (Prometheus). The authors, Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, who have been writing about New Yorker cartoons for some time, have done an excellent job exploring the mystical
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Summer Pierre’s Nod to Helen Hokinson Summer Pierre, who has contributed to The New Yorker‘s (online) Culture Desk since 2018, is offering a booklet of 20 cartoons inspired by the late great Helen Hokinson’s work. Ms. Pierre had this to say
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library Two additions this past week, a book by Nicholson Baker, and a book about death, edited by Mort Gerberg. First up, Mr. Baker’s Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper, published in 2001. I’m showing
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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