Weekend Spill: The Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art Announced; Early Release, Barry Blitt’s King Charles New Yorker Cover; The Tilley Watch Online…April 24-28, 2023

The Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art Announced From long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, April 29, 2023, this piece on last night’s announcement onstage in Thurber’s hometown of Columbus Ohio.  __________________________________________________________________________ Early Release: Barry Blitt’s  Cover for The New Yorker’s May 8th ’23 Issue   As happens every so often, The New Yorker shows us next week’s cover a

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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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