Happy 95th, George Booth!
Our very best wishes to New Yorker cartoon god, George Booth!
The Spill‘s George Booth entry:
George Booth Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat (Dodd, Mead, 1975), Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead, 1976), Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth (Congdon & Weed, 1984), The Essential George Booth, Compiled and Edited by Lee Lorenz ( Workman, 1998).
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Fireworks.
The Cartoonists:
Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Ed Steed has contributed this week ‘s spot drawings) No newbies, no duos (that we know of).
The Cartoons: Of note this week: the return of Glen Baxter to the magazine’s pages (according to The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site, his last appearance was in the issue of November 9, 2020). A lovely bagel-centric color piece!
A particular favorite this week: Kim Warp’s Whistler’s Cat (on page 58). Ms. Warp began contributing to the magazine in 1999. Hey, wouldn’t it be great to see a Warp collection of cartoons.
Other cartoons that caught my eye this week: Lars Kenseth’s (p.48); David Sipress’s (p.53)… Why his use of the name “Jeffrey” in the caption really makes the cartoon is beyond me. Things just work sometimes!; Peter Vey’s voting drawing (p.41).
You can see all of this week’s cartoons here.
The Rea Irvin Masthead Watch
Summer’s here. Would be a great time to bring back the classic Rea Irvin Talk Of The Town masthead mothballed since the Spring of 2017 when it was replaced by a -gasp!- redraw. Read about it here, and see it below.
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Of Note: Attempted Bloggery’s 10th Anniversary
A hearty congrats to Stephen Nadler on the 10th Anniversary of his go-to site, Attempted Bloggery.
As Spill visitors know, hardly a week goes by without my linking to something of interest on AB. The site excels in examination and discussion of original New Yorker art.
AB celebrated its 10th by posting its Index, which I’m sure you’ll find loads of fun scrolling through.