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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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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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest: Victoria Roberts This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast guest is the terrif Victoria Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. Listen here. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly On Live-Drawing “Succession” From Medium, December 14, 2021, “Drawing Horrible People” — long-time New Yorker contributor Liza Donnelly (her first New Yorker
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