Great Sunday Read: A New Yorker State Of Mind This week’s installment of David O’s A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine is particularly enjoyable. Read it here! –Cover by W. Cotton _______________________________________ Here’s Mr. Cotton’s A-Z Entry: William Cotton Born, 1880, Newport, Rhode Island; died, Sergeantsville, New Jersey, January 1958. 55 covers for
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Happy 96th, Edward Sorel! The Spill wishes the one-and-only Edward Sorel a very happy 96th birthday! Above left: Mr. Sorel at The Century Cub in 2021, celebrating the release of his memoir, Profusely Illustrated. on the right: Mr. Sorel’s first book, Moon Missing, published in 1962. Below: Mr. Sorel’s New Yorker cover
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A Group…Kovarsky, Steed, Decker, Cotton, Kenseth, Hokinson When I showed a group of original work two Mondays ago, I realized how much fun it is (for me) to toss together various pieces and then gab a bit about each one. This then is Group #2 of some original art (and a book) from the Spill archives. We’ll begin, front and center,
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Chast’s Embroidery From Threads Magazine, “Cartoonist Artist Roz Chast Draws With Needle And Thread” Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 1978. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________________________ Library Odds & Ends Okay, so these aren’t really “odd” but they are literally at the end of one of the Spill’s library shelves.
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