Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen
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Chast A National Humanities Medalist The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award! She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978. More information about the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and a list of the 2022 and 2023 medalists here. Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning: _____________________________________________________________________
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Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan From Bruce Eric Kaplan, (his drawings are signed BEK) this promotional video for his new book, They Went Another Way.: A Hollywood Memoir (out October 22 from Henry Holt & Co.). Mr. Kaplan began contributing drawings to The New Yorker in 1991. ____________________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Two Poets & Two Cartoonists Both Bob Eckstein
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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 Cover: The Games Begin The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Millie von Platen has Spots). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. Nice to see a Sam Gross cartoon
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