Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Tom Toro’s And To Think We Started As a Book Club… The book is out next Tuesday. If you’re in the Hudson Valley, you can see Tom in conversation with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, October 16th. Here’s the October Toro book tour schedule: ____________________________________________________________________________ West Coast Exhibit Of Interest San
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There’s Gold In These Volumes I’ve written in the past about the joys of looking through bound volumes of The New Yorker, and why seeing an original issue right before your eyes is preferable to seeing the magazine on a screen. The feel of the pages, the smell (yes, the smell!) of a seventy or eighty year old magazine —
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Bruce Petty…1929-2023 Mr. Petty, who contributed 62 cartoons to The New Yorker between 1959 and 1969, died yesterday at age 93. From The Daily Cartoonist, April 6, 2023: Bruce Petty And here’s an obit from his home country: The Sunday Morning Herald, April 6, 2023, “Bruce Petty, Cartoonist, Sculptor, and Oscar Winner, Dies Age 93” His first New Yorker cartoon
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Lian & Choudhury On “Two Dudes Watch Cartoons” Pod “Two Dudes Watch Cartoons” is a pod new to me — this episode, dedicated to discussing Bob’s Burgers, includes Evan Lian, who began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2019, and Zareen Choudhury whose first cartoon appeared in the magazine this past January. Watch here. Above: Co-host, Evan Lian
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