Looking through very old newspaper articles yesterday I came upon an ad for Thurber’s Dogs, a 1955 collection of Thurber dog-centric writings and drawings (the first edition is shown above). I love the simplicity of this ad: Here are some other editions through the years: Speaking of Thurber dogs, I was going through a box of New Yorkers the other
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Fave Photo Of The Week: Peter Arno Holding Hullabaloo Although I finished up Peter Arno’s biography eight years ago, I still have an interest in discovering “new” Arno material. Here’s a great photo I came across the other day that I’d never seen before. It appeared in
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A Group…Arno, Arno, Sorel, Koren This see-sawing weather day (cloudless, cloudy, warm, chilly) seemed a good time to put together another group of New Yorker folks. From the top left: an original sketch page (undated) by Peter Arno,
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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