Head on over to a fave Spill blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind, for “Thurber’s Dogs” (it includes a shout-out to the Spill, for which I am very grateful). And as long as we’re on the subject of Thurber’s dogs, don’t forget this wonderful compilation, published in 1955, Saturated, as you’d expect, with pup material, written and drawn. In
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Wednesday’s Spill: Personal History: Pre-New Yorker Reading Material; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonists
Personal History: Pre-New Yorker Reading Material Although it might seem like it’s all about The New Yorker here at Spill headquarters, there’s no denying that before The New Yorker became what it’s become (here) there were other reading materials. Like many kids, it was the comics, mostly in the form of comic books, that ate up the hours. I managed
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Tuesday Spill: Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil; Thanks McKelway!; Daily Cartoonists and Cartoons
Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil “How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. _________________________________________________________________ From The Dept
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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of February 8, 2021
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A beauty by Christoph Niemann. Read a short Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbie this week. The Cartoons: As always, a real pleasure seeing a drawing by Edward Koren (it’s on
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