The Blank Piece Of Paper Awaits One of the constants here every morning at Spill headquarters (besides the sun rising) is the site you see above that greets me at my desk (it’s really not a desk — it’s a table): a blank piece of paper, along with my Rapidograph. The small stack of paper rests on a 1964 edition
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__________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts: Ward Sutton On Proposed Trump Monuments. Mr. Sutton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here. ___________________________________________________________ In honor of Sean Connery, who played James Bond like nobody’s business, this drawing of mine from the archives, published in The New Yorker, August 14, 1995 (Mr. Connery passed away either late Friday
Read moreThe other day I posted three Helen Hokinson covers for The Stage. Courtesy of collector extraordinaire, Warren Bernard, I’m now posting a fourth. How many more are out there? Here’s Ms. Hokinson’s Spill entry: Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here
Read moreWarren Bernard, frequent Spill supplier of New Yorker archival materials, has unearthed this fab February 1950 American Artist article on the late great New Yorker artist Whitney Darrow, Jr.. My thanks to Mr. Bernard for sharing it with us. As a bonus, there’s an ad featuring Mr. Darrow, Jr.’s favorite drawing paper. Whitney Darrow, Jr.’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Read moreIn one of those million-to-one cartoon moments, both my colleague Harry Bliss (with his collaborator Steve Martin) and I have similar drawings out this week (his in his syndicated daily spot, and mine in The New Yorker). What’s unusual, besides the timing of publication, and the peacock standing in a doorway in both drawings, is the use of the peacock
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