Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Steinberg’s “Illuminations” I could’ve titled this post “The Big Freeze.” It’s about falling out of love with Steinberg’s work, and then, ever-so-slightly falling back. The book shown above, according to text on the copyright page, “was published [in 2006] on the occasion of the exhibition Saul Steinberg: Illuminations”…and therein lies the personal reason for the
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Drawing Snow In these parts, a hundred miles north of Times Square, we’ve finally received some snow in the past few days. It’s a reasonable amount — not enough to cause “problems.” Standing outside this morning looking at the woods, I noticed our stone rabbit had a nice little hat of the white stuff. Seeing this reminded me of what
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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To Reveal A Caption, Or Not To Reveal, That Is The Question A drawing of mine (the original is shown above) recently appeared in The New Yorker Caption Contest. I don’t know how many I’ve contributed to the contest over the years, and I won’t guess. But I will guess that many of them were submitted captionless — I submitted
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