Sunday Spill: Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Film At Montclair Film Festival; The Tilley Watch Online, September 22-26, 2025

Donnelly’s Women Laughing Documentary Film At The Montclair Film Festival  Ms. Donnelly’s Women Laughing will be shown at the Montclair Film festival, Sunday, October 19, 2025. Following the screening there’ll be an “extended Q&A with director, Kathleen Hughes and Director/Subject, Liza Donnelly, and subjects Emily Flake, Amy Hwang, Bishakh Som, and Emily Sanders Hopkins.” More information here.  For more on

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Saturday Spill: Follow Up On CartoonStock’s AI Cartoon Generator

    Follow up On CartoonStock’s AI Comics Generator A follow up to yesterday’s Spill post about CartoonStock’s use of what it calls  “Ai-generated cartoons and comics.” The Spill has seen an email sent out yesterday late afternoon by CartoonStock to CartoonStock cartoonists with the heading, “Clarification on AI and CartoonStock’s Commitment to Cartoonists”. The email begins: “We’ve received some

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Thurber Thursday: Historical Marker

Historical Marker  I’ve no idea how many New Yorker cartoonists have been honored with a historical marker.* Here’s James Thurber’s in Columbus, Ohio: It rests outside of Thurber House.   More here. _________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According

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Wednesday Spill: Today! Jeopardy Substack Live With Liza Donnelly; Slouching Towards Organization; Video Of Interest…”A Century Of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons”; Substack Of Interest…Chatfield’s “New York Cartoons”; Interview Of Interest…Hilary Campbell

  Jeopardy Substack Live Appearance Of Interest Jeopardy, a newish member of the Substack community will carry a live interview with Liza Donnelly this afternoon at 5:30 EST.  You can see it either on: jeopary.substack.com or Ms. Donnelly’s Substack,  Seeing Things Here’s what the Jeopardy folks posted online… _________________________________________________________________________ Slouching Towards Organization   It’s been fun for the above mentioned Liza

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