The Weekend Spill: Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 30, 2019 – January 3, 2020

                                       Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings From Princeton University’s Firestone Library Special Collections, “Henry Martin’s Spots” — this piece on Mr. Martin’s considerable Spot Drawing contribution to The New Yorker during his thirty-five year run at magazine. Here’s a fun photo from the article: Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin (Photo: 1984). Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky.

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The New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Blitt’s Kvetchbook; New Yorker Cartoonist Newbies 2019

New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo. It’s only taken me twenty-two years to notice that the New Yorker switched its cover placement of the issue date and issue price. Since the very first issue, published February 21, 1925, the issue date appeared top left, and the price upper right. Seventy-three years after that first issue, in the summer of 1998,

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Video Of Interest: Amy Hwang’s TedX Yale Talk; Interview Of Interest: Caitlin Cass; John Donohue’s All The Restaurants In New York Launch; Book Event Of Interest With Bob Eckstein, Roz Chast, Robert Leighton, and Bruce Eric Kaplan; Article Of Interest: Seth; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Tim Hamilton

Video Of Interest: Amy Hwang’s TedX Yale Talk   Watch Amy Hwang’s recent TedX Yale talk, “How To Make A Decision That Could Ruin Your Life” Ms. Hwang began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010.  Visit her website here. Left : an Amy Hwang New Yorker drawing from January 30, 2017.   ______________________ Interview Of Interest: Caitlin Cass From

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Exhibit Of Interest: Peter Steiner’s Recent Paintings; The Tilley Watch Online, April 29 – May 4, 2019; Seth Fleishman’s Tribute To Nurit Karlin

Exhibit Of Interest: Peter Steiner’s Recent Paintings Peter Steiner, a person who wears many hats (cartoonist, novelist, teacher, painter) will show recent paintings at the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon in June.  All the info here (including an expanded bio).  Mr. Steiner began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 1979. His 1993 drawing“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a

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