Fave Photos Of The Week This past Thursday, a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists hopped in a car and drove upstate to Rhinebeck, NY from the isle of Manhattan. Another cartoonist drove west from Connecticut, and yet another traveled east across the Hudson River from Woodstock. All of them settled down in a coffee shop for hours of cartoon merriment.
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 7-11, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, Ellie Black, Ali Solomon, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Shannon Wheeler, Brooke Bourgeois. Daily Shouts: Lynn Hsu. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook:
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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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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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