The Weekend Watch: Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On “Very Funny Ladies” Cover; The Tilley Watch Online, March 1-5, 2021; Cops & Robbers Cartoons 1939-1969 From Dick Buchanan’s Files

The Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing

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Wednesday Spill: A Bacon Post Card; Blitt’s Latest Kvetchbook; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Mick Stevens

A Bacon Postcard From a collector par excellence, this scan just sent in to the Spill: an undated (signed) postcard by Peggy Bacon. Only further info: Whitney Studio Club. Dry Point Etching. Here’s the Spill‘s Peggy Bacon A-Z entry: Peggy Bacon ( Self portrait above from Bacon’s Off With Their Heads!) Born May 2, 1895, Ridgefield, Ct.. Died January 4,

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The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon;The Tilley Watch Online, February 1-5, 2021; Smallest Cartoon Original In The House

The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________ 

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The Wednesday Spill: Jason Chatfield On Collaborating; Today’s Daily Cartoonist…And Yesterday’s; Blitt’s Latest Kvetchbook

Jason Chatfield On Collaborating From Mr. Chatfield’s blog, January 26, 2021,  “Thoughts On Having A Writing Partner”   He began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Among the many feathers in Mr. Chatfield’s cap; he is President of The National Cartoonists Society.   ________________________________________________________   Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Teresa Burns Parkhurst on the Founding Fathers. Ms. Parkhurst began

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