The Cover The cover before the big day. Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is the line of people (waiting to vote, heading into the sunset, or sunrise?) forming a “B”…could be a B for Blitt, the cover artist, or a B for, well, you know who…). Stepping into The New Yorker time machine (again), I opened up
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__________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts: Ward Sutton On Proposed Trump Monuments. Mr. Sutton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here. ___________________________________________________________ In honor of Sean Connery, who played James Bond like nobody’s business, this drawing of mine from the archives, published in The New Yorker, August 14, 1995 (Mr. Connery passed away either late Friday
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
Read more_________________________________________________________________________ New Addition To The Spill Library Part of the Spill‘s (self charged) charge is to keep in mind all those cartoonists who have been and are part of The New Yorker, not just the names up in lights. Larry Reynolds, having contributed to several of the biggest magazines of his day (including Collier’s, and The Saturday Evening Post) also
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