All the Harvey Comics Cartoon Characters
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New Addition(s) To The Spill Library
With the arrival this week of the Armed Services edition of Thurber’s masterpiece, My Life And Hard Times, the Spill library has moved closer to a completing the Thurber Armed Services editions. Just The Thurber Carnival and Is Sex Necessary remain. All in good time! (I’m in no hurry).
Read more about the Armed Services editions here.
below: the other Thurber titles in the Spill library
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Also this week
Some time back I posted the above photo of the well-used (tattered?) dust jacket covering my copy of Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography. I bought this copy in 1975, the year it was published, when I was in my last year of college, diving deep into The New Yorker‘s history. I’ve read Mr. Bernstein’s book through and through, again and again (and it shows). Each time the book comes off the shelf I imagine the jacket loses a small piece or two (I’ve been patching it for years).
Strolling through the internet the other day I was so pleased to see a copy of Mr. Bernstein’s book in near new condition (price paid: $3.85). My 51 year old copy can now take it easy; from now on this “new” one will do the heavy lifting.
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Attempted Bloggery On A Recently Auctioned Thurber Original
A Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery, is all over the recently auctioned Thurber original shown above. Read it here!
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James Thurber’s A-Z Entry
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website
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Award Of Interest…Bruce Eric Kaplan
From New Jersey Stage, May 15, 2026, “Bruce Eric Kaplan To Receive The Maplewood Literary Award On May 21st”
Mr. Kaplan (who signs his work “BEK”) began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991. His most recent book is They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir (Henry Holt & co., 2024)
Below: his first cartoon collection (1999), and his memoir (2015):
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Hilary Campbell Has A Sketchbook Club
Hilary Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. All the details about her Sketchbook Club can be found here on Instagram.Her most recent book is The Joy Of Snacking (Andrews McMeel, 2025).
Visit her website here.
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Liana Finck Speaks
From Dorotusa, “An Afternoon With Cartoonist Liana Finck” — notice of an online appearance on May 27th where, according to the organization’s website:
“Cartoonist and graphic novelist Liana Finck talks about her New Yorker cartoons and her books, which include an adaptation of Yiddish advice column A Bintel Brief and Let There Be Light, an adaptation of the Book of Genesis.” All the info here.
Liana Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here.
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Two New Yorker Artists Are Pulitzer Finalists
We learned yesterday that Peter Kuper (above, left) and Ivan Ehlers (on the right) were named finalists in the Pulitzer Prize category of Illustrated Reporting and Commentary. The Spill congratulates both of these fine folks.
Mr. Kuper began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011; Mr. Ehlers in 2021.
See the full list of 2026 winners and finalists here.
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Article Of Interest: Alan Dunn’s Architectural Drawings
From Apollo Magazine, April 27, 2026, “The Cartoonist with A Fine Line In Architectural Criticism”
— this piece by Will Wiles comes just weeks before the publication of Gabriele Neri’s Alan Dunn: The Cartoonist As Architectural Critic (May 25, 2026. MIT Press).
Mr. Dunn was, for many years, the most published New Yorker artist.
(My thanks to Mike Rhode for the link)
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Alan Dunn’s A-Z Entry:
Alan Dunn (self portrait above from Meet the Artist) Born in Belmar, New Jersey, August 11, 1900, died in New York City, May 20, 1974. New Yorker work: 1926 -1974 Key collections: Rejections (Knopf, 1931), Who’s Paying For This Cab? (Simon & Schuster, 1945), A Portfolio of Social Cartoons ( Simon & Schuster, 1968). One of the most published New Yorker cartoonists (1,906 cartoons) , Mr. Dunn was married to Mary Petty — together they lived and worked at 12 East 88th Street, where, according to the NYTs, Alan worked “seated in a small chair at a card table, drawing in charcoal and grease pencil.”
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More Dunn…Rejections (Knopf, 1931), and Who’s Paying for This Cab? A Book of Cartoons from the New Yorker (Simon and Schuster, 1945).
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Favorite Beatle?
Here’s a somewhat autobiographical drawing from The New Yorker (December 28, 1992) posted today in celebration of Paul McCartney‘s just released, well-received, new album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane.
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The Tilley Watch Online, May 25-29, 2026
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
Daily Cartoon: Emily Flake, Juan Astasio, Paul Noth, Adam Douglas Thompson, P.C. Vey. See them here.
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Q&A Of Interest With Hilary Campbell
From Graphic Memoirs Blog, May 29, 2026, “From The New Yorker To Graphic Memoir: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell”
Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit her website here.
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Rich Sparks’ Upcoming Draw Me Anything Appearance
Rich Sparks, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in 2016 joins a New Yorker colleague, Jason Chatfield this coming Wednesday on Mr. Chatfield’s Draw Me Anything! (Mr. Chatfield began contributing to the magazine in 2017). They’ll most certainly discuss Mr. Sparks’ latest book (below).
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Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Celebrates Its 250 Episode
Congrats to the fine folks at the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast on their 250th! Listen to their special episode here.
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Paul Noth Cartoon Collection Cover Revealed
The collection by Mr. Noth, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2004, will be out this October.
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Peter Kuper News
A couple of fun items concerning Peter Kuper, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. His book, Insectopolis: A Natural History is a Ohio Books Awards finalist in the category of nonfiction.
and…
his work is included in Cleveland’s Maltz Museum exhibit, “Icons In Ink: The Jewish Comics Experience”
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A Reminder: Rich Sparks Today at 12:30 On Jason Chatfield’s “Draw Me Anything”
Mr. Sparks,began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016; Mr. Chatfield began contributing in 2017.
Link here to Mr. Chatfield’s site
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