The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: doggies looking at a biscuit The Cartoonists: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos, such as this week’s combo of Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, as one cartoonist). No newbies. No collaborations (other than Johnson/Skolmoski)
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Read a brief Q&A with the cover artist here. The Cartoonists: A baker’s dozen number of cartoonists (Emily Flake has a “Sketchpad); a dozen cartoons. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). The Cartoons:
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The Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing
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New Addition Of An Old Edition I love it when two New Yorker folks team up in one book, such as this latest addition to the Spill‘s library: That’s New York! (Macy-Masius, 1927 ) by writer, Morris Markey and cartoonist/illustrator, Johan Bull. Bull and Markey began contributing to the magazine in its first year. In a 1937 letter to James
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