More Mahrer New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding” Bill Maher continues “decoding” New Yorker cartoons with his guests. This week his guest is Gavin Rossdale. Watch here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sunday Reading…Back to The Beginning Above are books containing work that energized me as a little kid, and prompted me to draw. Every cartoonist rests on a foundation of work by others. Every now
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The Tilley Watch Online, April 14-18, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Dan Misdea, Ivan Ehlers, Adam Douglas Thompson, Tom Toro, Ali Solomon. Daily Cartoon Slideshow Cartoon Highlights 1956-1965 _________________________________________________________________ Personal History: Revisiting Crumb The publication this week of Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,
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I thought it would it would be fun to do a sort of quick (upsidedown) family tree of the graphics that swept me along to the present day. If you’ve been reading the Spill for awhile, you’re probably aware of some of this. While it’s my past I’m talking about, some of the “branches” very likely apply to a lot
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Personal History…MAD The upcoming MAD Magazine exhibit at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts has stirred up a lot of MAD memories — all good ones. When I first started
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