Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, June 9-13, 2025; “Attempted Bloggery” On A Peter Arno Original Drawing; “A New Yorker State Of Mind” Dives Into The Issue Of June 1, 1935

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features   Daily Cartoon: Lars Kenseth, Mads Horwath, Harry Bliss, Guy Richards Smit, P.C. Vey. See the Daily cartoons here.    _______________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Peter Arno Original Drawing Attempted Bloggery looks at and into an interesting and somewhat baffling Peter Arno Whoops

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Wednesday Spill: Al Frueh’s Thurber-Like Drawing

Al Frueh’s Thurber-like Drawing Al Frueh, mentioned here yesterday (his was the first cartoon in the very first issue of The New Yorker) provided the below drawing in the April 9, 1960 issue of the magazine (“The Thurber Carnival” had opened the previous February). Mr. Frueh did a great job of staying true to his own style while tipping his

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Tuesday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives: A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons And Covers Collection

A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons & Covers Collection   A relative in England recently brought over a package of New Yorker cartoons clipped by their father in the mid 1940s. The Spill has a few other New Yorker cartoon collections in its archives (one is in a scrapbook, another contains just New Yorker covers held in a 3 ring binder,

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