Friday Spill: Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook; More Spills: Blitt, Larson, Fitzgerald; Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt. 3

Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021,  “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie

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Weekend Spill: Happy Halloween!: An Ink Spill Interview Compendium; The Tilley Watch Online, October 25-29, 2021; Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery

                                                        Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.

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Weekend Spill: Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest…Edward Koren At The Peabody Essex Museum; Article Of Interest: Zach Kanin; Latest ToonStack…”Deep Dark Droll Fears”; The Tilley Watch Online, September 27 – October 1, 2021

Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest: Edward Koren We’ll have to wait til March of 2022 to see “Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but it’ll be worth it. All the information here.   Edward Koren’s A-Z Spill entry:  Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work:

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Weekend Spill: Case For Pencils Spotlights Ali Solomon; The Latest ToonStack: “Grrrripes”; The Tilley Watch Online, July 26-30, 2021

Case For Pencils Spotlights Ali Solomon Jane Mattimoe’s fab Case For Pencils blog features Ali Solomon this week.  Ms. Solomon’s new book (shown here) is just out. Go here to see more of her work. Don’t forget to visit the Case For Pencils archive where you’ll find a spectacular line up of previously featured cartoonists.   _________________________________________________________________________ The Latest ToonStack:

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