From the Archive: The Spill’s Trad Easter Sunday (Rejected) Cover The below was submitted to The New Yorker (and rejected) a long long time ago. I like dusting it off and letting it see some sunlight once a year. _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online…The Week
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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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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Daily Cartoon: John McNamee, Dan Misdea, Paul Noth, Tom Toro, Adam Douglas Thompson. Daily Shouts: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Ali Fitzgerald, Emily Flake. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Fox News Protects Itself” ______________________________________________________________ Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Pod: Daniel
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Since It’s Super Bowl Sunday… I’ve had but two football drawings in The New Yorker; I post one of them every Thanksgiving Day. Here’s the other one, published October 23, 2017… A New Yorker Cartoon Education Via The Classics Although I went to college, and
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