Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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Michael Updike Looks For A Cartoon Michael Updike contacted the Spill recently in search of a multi-panel New Yorker drawing, published in the 1970s, similar to the one (shown below) his father, John Updike, did for The Harvard Lampoon in the early 1950s. After a thorough search through The New Yorker’s database the only drawing I found that came
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Out Today: Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward Mr. Lindell began contributing to The New Yorker in March of this year. His book Blackward (Drawn & quarterly) is out today. Here’s a related article, published September 25, 2023, in The San Francisco Chronicle, “Cartoonist Lawrence Lindell’s Blackward Is A Testament To Publishing Without Permission” ______________________________________________________________________ Rumbles Over New Yorker Walkers Cover The
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Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of September 11- 16, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Ellis Rosen, Colin Tom, Mick Stevens, Sarah Kempa. Daily Shouts: Jeremy Nguyen (with Caroline Cash), Mads Horwath (with Meghana Indurti and Sohrab Forouzesh), Teresa Burns Parkhurst. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Mitch McConnell
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