Twinkies Redux

  Today’s news that the Hostess Brands company is closing down reminded me of an Ink Spill post from mid-January of this year, when the company filed for bankruptcy. Back then I posted this New Yorker cartoon of mine from the issue of September 5, 1983,  and wrote: For the record: I love Twinkies. Should they disappear, we will all

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Your Twinkie

The news that the Hostess company has filed for bankruptcy reminded me of one of the drawings I did ages ago poking at the super rich, “That will be Williams with your Twinkie” (it appeared in The New Yorker, September 5, 1983). For the record: I love Twinkies. Should they disappear, we will all be the poorer for it.

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