Michael Gerber, the fellow who’s behind the wonderful humor magazine The American Bystander, has unveiled a new website, The 251, “dedicated to publishing prose 251 words or shorter, and cartoons that don’t take longer than four seconds to figure out.”
(above: Tom Chitty‘s design for the 251)
By the way, if you love cartoon elephants, you’ll be thrilled by this first offering: three elephant cartoons in a row by three New Yorker cartoonists* (following a car full of bears by another New Yorker cartoonist**).
You can see the elephants and bears, and so much more, here.
*Liza Donnelly, Emily Flake, and the late great Jack Ziegler
**Bob Eckstein (see an Eckstein related piece below).
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Attempted Bloggery Remembers The 21 Club (And Its Cartoon Art)
We learned just a few days ago that Manhattan’s 21 Club would shut its doors for good. Luckily for us, Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler took photos of some of the cartoon art on the club’s walls (including Peter Arno’s New Yorker cover art for the issue of January 30, 1965). Mr. Nadler shares what he found on today’s Attempted Bloggery post.
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Penguins In Snow
Bob Eckstein, who knows a bit about snow(men), posted the below photo of his backyard penguin braving yesterday’s big snow.
Not coincidently, the Spill‘s own backyard penguin was also snow-covered yesterday.
