For the past twenty-seven summers, my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I have gone to the same Downeast home, and over those years, have built a small library of books, some New Yorker-centric (but many having nothing to do with the magazine). Copies of all of The New Yorkery books in Maine are also in the Spill‘s library back home
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The New Yorker’s Latest Digital Issue…The Format Of Things to Come? With the arrival this past week of “The Family Issue,” The New Yorker‘s second digital issue (the first, the “Interviews Issue,” appeared last February), it might be time to crinkle our face and ask: is this The New Yorker‘s future? I haven’t a clue if these special digital issues
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Event Of Interest: 14 New Yorker Artists At Read360 The folks shown below will gather in NYC on May 1st. Info here. _____________________________________________________________ Two Pages Looking through a recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume of New Yorkers from the Fall of 1985 through mid-February 1986, I came across these two pages in the issue of
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_____________________________________________________________________ Otto Soglow’s Spots The arc of Otto Soglow’s Little King has been well covered in Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW, 2012), but my attempt to find when he began his long berth as
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