___________________________________________________________________________________ So often when I go on a hunt for something in the Spill‘s archives I come upon some other thing that takes me off onto another track. Today for instance, while poking around piles of boxes, I came across the box you see above. Many years ago I filled the box with issues of The New Yorker bearing Steinberg
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Barry Blitt’s Latest Kvetchbook: J.D. Salinger; “New Yorker Cartoons For The Holidays”
Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Teresa Burns Parkhurst on ice skating. Ms. Parkhurst began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. More of her New Yorker work can be seen here. ___________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist “Classic Instagram Poses To Confuse People About Whether You’re Dating Someone” — a joint effort by Jason Adam Katzenstein, who wrote the piece &
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: Happy 125th James Thurber!; Three New Yorkers; New Cast Album For Arno’s 1930’s Musical “The New Yorkers”; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 2-6, 2019
Happy 125th James Thurber! Anyone who follows the Spill knows that James Thurber is a mighty big deal around here. I’ve written numerous times over the years how seeing his drawing, “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” changed everything for me. Today marks the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth. Michael Rosen’s recently published A Mile and a Half of
Read moreJames Thurber, Cartoon Critic; William Steig Drawings At Auction; Meet The Artist (1943): Gluyas Williams
James Thurber, Cartoon Critic On a recent search through Thurber biographies in the Spill library I happened upon a Thurber letter I’d forgotten about. Written to Harold Ross, and dated October 20, 1941, it appears in the mother ship of all Thurber biographies, Harrison Kinney’s twelve hundred and thirty-eight page Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995). Thurber, unhappy
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