Fave Photo of the Day: George Booth Sarah Booth recently took this photo of her father, the one-and-only George Booth. My thanks to Sarah for permission to post here. Below left: a “Booth Dog” Here’s Mr. Booth’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z : George Booth (photo above taken in NYC 2016, courtesy of Liza Donnelly) Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville,
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Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 4: Steinberg; Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Rejected New Yorker Covers by Whittington, Higgins; Video: New York City in the 1920s
Steinberg did ad work? You bet. As with William Steig, a Steinberg Part 2 will be posted at some later time. Warren Bernard, Executive Director of SPX, is the one responsible for researching & gathering all these images. My thanks to Warren for allowing them to appear here. Here are the dates for these ads: Emerson, 1948; House & Garden,
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 3: Barbara Shermund
We continue with the Spill’s special presentation of Warren Bernard’s collection of ads by New Yorker cartoonists. My thanks to Mr. Bernard for all the elbow work collecting these. Today we see four Barbara Shermund ads. Ms. Shermund is surely one of the most important (and sadly, overlooked) early contributors to the magazine. To read a whole lot more about
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 1: Peter Arno; Shanahan’s Sharks
Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 1 Warren Bernard, author of the wonderful book, Cartoons For Victory, as well as Executive Director of The Small Press Expo, has generously allowed the Spill access to hundreds of images he has collected that depict advertising work executed by New Yorker cartoonists. The Spill will post these from time-to-time. This is not
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