Note: As we’re in the second week of the July double issue, there’s no new selection of cartoons to look at this Monday. The Monday Tilley Watch will return next week. Fave Photo Of The Day: A Gathering
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Tag: Akeem Roberts
Weekend Spill: From The Archive…A Rejected Easter Cover; The Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of April 3-7, 2023; More Spills
From the Archive: The Spill’s Trad Easter Sunday (Rejected) Cover The below was submitted to The New Yorker (and rejected) a long long time ago. I like dusting it off and letting it see some sunlight once a year. _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online…The Week
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Friday Spill: Akeem Roberts Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Pod; MoCCA This Weekend; Chast Exhibit In Minnesota
Akeem Roberts Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Roberts, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in July of 2019, joins co-hosts Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Beth Lawler. Listen here. (photo above, clockwise from top left: Lawler, Nesja, Coca, and Roberts). Akeem Roberts’s website. ________________________________________________________________________________ It’s MoCCA fest time again (April 1-2, 2023). All the
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Weekend Spill: A Good Book; The Tilley Watch Online, March 6-10, 2023; Donnelly On Day Four Of Oscar Week: “Oscar Statue Day”
A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen
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