The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: About the war. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). One newbie: Erika Sjule,* who is the 7th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this year, and the 107th newbie brought
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Weekend Spill: NYTs On Barbara Shermund “Overlooked No More”; Ward Sutton’s “Adams Family”; Peter Kuper Is The 2022 Herblock Prize Finalist; Book Review Of Interest: Hilary Campbell’s “Murder Book”; Video Of Interest: A Panel Discusses Booth Doc; The Tilley Watch Online: February 28 – March 4, 2022; Kendra Allenby “Turning Words Into Watercolors”
The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund! The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work. The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in
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Tuesday Spill: New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel With Liza Donnelly, Amy Hwang, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, & Emma Allen; “New Yorker Luminaries” From Dick Buchanan’s Files; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel “Very Funny Ladies” With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, And Finck It’s back! Amidst all the other panels and appearances this Fall there’s a virtual must-see panel for fans of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. “Very Funny Ladies” with Liza Donnelly (whose updated history of New Yorker women cartoonists, Very Funny
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Thurber Thursday: In Situ…”Well, It Makes a Difference To Me!”
A favorite pastime here at the Spill is looking up classic New Yorker drawings (cartoons) to see them as they originally appeared in magazine. This being Thurber Thursday (and even if it wasn’t) I had a hankerin’ to see one of my favorite Thurber drawings in its natural habitat. My first stop was Bowden’s JamesThurber: A Bibliography to find the
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