Gahan Wilson Exhibit In Sag Harbor From Sag Harbor Express, July 13, 2021, “The Macabre World Of Gahan Wilson On Full Display At Sag Harbor Whaling Museum” — Mr. Wilson, who passed away in 2019, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1976. Link to his website here. Link here to the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum website (with all the
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(Paywalled) Article Of Interest: Barry Blitt From The Connecticut Post, July 12, 2021, “Meet A New Yorker Cartoonist From Connecticut”–this interview with Barry Blitt. You’re allowed to read a snippet, but have to pay to read the rest. Darn. Mr. Blitt began contributing to The New Yorker in 1994. Link to his website here. ___________________________________________________________________ Monday’s Daily Cartoonist: Zoe Si,
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48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker This being the second week of a double issue week, there’s no new magazine art to study this rainy morn. As regular visitors to the Spill know, I occasionally do some time-traveling on these off-weeks, and look at an issue (usually selected at random) from the past. I wanted some small
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Latest ToonStack Posted Sunday is ToonStack day. The latest, with this week’s theme,Travel, is here. Contributing New Yorker cartoonists this time ’round are Amy Hwang, Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Ellis Rosen, Kendra Allenby, Hilary Campbell, and Leise Hook, and Johnny DiNapoli. __________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online: The Week of July 5-9, 2021 An end of week listing of New Yorker
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Let The Pre-Laughing Begin: Joe Dator’s “Inked” An advance copy of Joe Dator’s Inked has arrived in the mail. The book’s not out til October, so in the spirit of pre-ordering (which I hope Spill visitors will do), I’m pre-laughing. This is not a review of Mr. Dator’s book (the Spill doesn’t review colleagues’ books) — not a review, but
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