First And Last: William Hamilton A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last William Hamilton, a New Yorker cartoonist mainstay for forty-eight years, owned one of the most recognizable
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Wednesday Spill: A Couple Of William Hamilton Roughs; A Big Date
A Couple Of Hamilton Roughs I believe I’m on record somewhere (here maybe?) saying how much I enjoy cartoonists’s rough drawings almost as much as their finished work. And so it was lots of fun “winning” two William Hamilton pieces a week ago on Ebay (up until then, the Spill collection had zero Hamilton originals). Although these drawings have some
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Friday Spill: The New Yorker Issue Of January 1, 1979
The New Yorker Issue Of January 1, 1979 Yesterday, while in the Spill library, I closed my eyes for a moment and grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf. By happy accident, I selected January-February 1979. Opening to the first issue I saw this: Although there have been many many great New Yorker New Year’s covers
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Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection; Speaking Of Books… A Steinberg Tip Of The Hat; A Limited Edition Print From Drew Dernavich And Nesja Press
Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection A regular stop when I visit Northampton, Massachusetts is The Raven, a terrif used bookstore located just off of Main Street. Although the comic/comix/cartoon section is small, I ran across a number of interesting New Yorker-centric titles while there yesterday, including Steinberg At The New Yorker, Roz Chast’s Can
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