Wednesday Spill: “From Lines To Laughs: Women+ On Men” Exhibit Opens At The Society Of Illustrators; Personal History…”My Greatest Drawing Ever”

“From Lines To Laughs: Women+ On Men” Exhibit Opens At the Society Of Illustrators Opening today! An exhibit of work at The Society of Illustrators by the New Yorker artists listed below. Sarah Akinterinwa, Lila Ash, Ellie Black, Hilary Campbell, Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Helen Hokinson, Amy Hwang, Amy Kurzweil, Maggie Larson, Sara Lautman, Roberta Macdonald,

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Thurber Thursday: A Button And A Book

A Button Sometimes the simplest things are the best things. Take for instance the Thurber dog eraser in the photo shown here. It came from the Thurber House gift shop I don’t know how many years ago. I’ve never used it as an eraser, and now, even if I wanted to (and I never will), it’s too late, as it’s

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Friday Spill: Victoria Roberts On Bruce Petty

Long-time New Yorker artist, Victoria Roberts has sent the below piece this way. My thanks to her for sharing it with Spill readers.  “Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty died on April 6th, aged 93. His work graced the pages of Punch and The New Yorker, and he won an Academy Award for his film “Leisure” in 1977. But what I will

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