Millie von Platen Illustrates NYTs “Summer Reading”Book Review Congrats to Millie von Platen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2020, on illustrating much of the current New York Times “Summer Reading” Book Review (including, as you see here, the cover). Terrif work! ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, May 30 – June 3, 2022 An end of
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A Miscellany Looking over items on my desktop this morning (not my “real” desktop — the one on my computer) I came across various items I’ve been saving for future Spill posts. I thought, hey wait a sec! Posting these as group is a Spill post. So here, in no particular order, and with little to connect them other than they’re
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Thurbers Auctioned At Christie’s Bidding has ended for the three lots of Thurber drawings that were part of the William Reese Collection. All three lots exceeded their estimates. Lot 423:”Price realised”: $17,640.00…Eight drawings, including the outstanding, “I don’t want any part of it!” Lot 424: “Price realised”: $16,380.00…15 drawings for “The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying
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A Look At The New Yorker’s 25th Anniversary Issue This morning I grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf that includes the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue. Hmmmm, I thought to myself…1950. interesting time for the magazine, with the semi-modern wave of cartoonists (Saxon, Weber, Lorenz, Miller, etc.) yet to arrive. If we remember that Harold Ross (the
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