Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, December 18-22, 2023; The New Yorker’s 1925 Holiday Cover

The Tilley Watch Online, December 18-22, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: P.C. Vey, Ali Solomon, Brooke Bourgeois, Ellis Rosen, Drew Panckeri. See the Daily Cartoons here. Daily Shouts: Adam Douglas Thompson. ___________________________________________________________________________ The New Yorker’s 1925 Holiday CoverĀ  The New Yorker was just 10 months

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Tuesday Spill: A Parade Of Styles

Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).  

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Wednesday Spill: Mary Gauerke… The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s

Mary Gauerke: The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s Reading Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, there’s no missing how central women artists were in the magazine’s developing years. Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, considered three cartoonists above and beyond all of his other cartoonists (their names

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