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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Millie von Platen Illustrates NYTs “Summer Reading”Book Review Congrats to Millie von Platen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2020, on illustrating much of the current New York Times “Summer Reading” Book Review (including, as you see here, the cover). Terrif work! ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, May 30 – June 3, 2022 An end of
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Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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A Spill Easter Tradition: here at the Spill, Easter Sunday is an occasion to dust off and post a decades-ago rejected cover of mine (rejected by The New Yorker that is). My memory is that I was in a Charles Addams-y kind of mood when I did
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