Case For Pencils Spotlights Zoe Si Jane Mattimoe’s fab blog A Case For Pencils shows us New Yorker cartoonist, Zoe Si’s tools of the trade (that’s a shot of her work area above via Ms. Mattimoe’s blog). Zoe Si began contributing to The New Yorker in 2020. Link here to the Zoe Si Case post. ___________________________________________________________- Alan Dunn’s Fender
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_______________________________________________________________________________ The Spill introduces a new column today, The Auction Watch. I spend a lot of time window shopping on ebay, looking for New Yorker things I’ve never seen before. When I run across something out of the norm, I’ll mention it here. The Auction Watch will in no way step on Attempted Bloggery‘s toes. That’s the place to go
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Over the weekend I showed you a Charles Saxon TV Guide Santa Cover. Here are a few more New Yorker artists who contributed TV Guide holiday covers. You can find these and so much more on this terrif resource, TV Guide Magazine: The Cover Archive. Clockwise from upper left: Ronald Searle (Dec. 25, 1976); Andre Francois (Dec. 20, 1975); William
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A Saxon Santa Cover I usually associate Charles Saxon covers with The New Yorker (and no wonder — he had 93 covers), but here’s a terrif TV Guide cover from the issue of December 24-30, 1977 featuring Saxon’s art. Saxon’s A-Z entry: Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920,
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