Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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We’re in the second week of a double issue, so no new New Yorker (and thus, no new New Yorker cartoons) to peruse this morning. Have you ever wondered when The New Yorker started doubling up issues? The magazine was a weekly from its (famous) first issue, dated February 21, 1925 all the way til December 20, 1993. It managed
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A Yale Record New Yorker Parody Issue With “Thurbs” This 1961 Yale Record New Yorker parody, The Yew Norker, is a recent addition to the Spill’s New Yorker parody collection mentioned here the other day). I was pleased (and surprised) to find the below Thurber parody drawing. Pleased and surprised because new Thurber drawings hadn’t appeared in The
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A 1987 Ad Thanking William Shawn From the This is News to Me Dept.: an ad in Variety, published February 4, 1987, signed by a dozen New Yorker luminaries, thanking William Shawn for his editorship of the magazine (he was editor from 1952 through 1987). This particular copy of the ad, found on Ebay, is, apparently, a print of the
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