The Weekend Spill: New Yorker-Centric Books Stepping Up; Article Of Interest: “Behind The Covers”; The Online Tilley Watch, June 1-5, 2020

New Yorker-Centric Books Stepping Up Here at Spill headquarters we ran out of bookshelf space quite awhile ago; even the places to “temporarily” place them have become crowded. A few weeks ago, a few old favorites and new favorites — all New Yorker-centric (but one) — began being placed at the bottom step of our thirteen hallway steps. Then a

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Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist & Yesterday’s; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist From Ali Fitzgerald: “America!: How Birds Are Adjusting To Our New Reality” Ms. Fitzgerald has been contributing since 2016. Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist: Emily Flake, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008.     Today’s Daily Cartoonist: a newbie, Yasin Osman.  This is his first newyorker.com appearance (his work, as of yet, has not

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The Weekend Spill: Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist: Eugenia Viti; Tilley Watch Online, Week Of April 20-24, 2020; Video Interview Of Interest: Lars Kenseth

____________________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist From Eugenia Viti, who began contributing to The New Yorker in June of 2019: “What To Think About In The Morning Before You Remember The Sad State Of The World”   ________________________________________________________________________ A listing of New Yorker artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features through the week The Daily Cartoon:  J.A.K., Emily Flake, Avi Steinberg, Cerise

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The Latest American Bystander; Jason Chatfield’s Covid-19 Diary; Daily Cartoon & Daily Shouts Cartoonists (Yesterday’s & Today’s)…And Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook

The latest American Bystander (March 2020) has landed on my desk —  it’s a treat!  Here are The New Yorker cartoonists whose contributions you’ll find in the issue (and in the case of John Cuneo, on the issue’s cover): George Booth (besides a full-page Booth drawing there’s a lovely photo of Mr. Booth on the very last page), Roz Chast

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