Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons Fifteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons. No newbies, and no duos, that we know of. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of July 3,
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The Tilley Watch Online, October 13-17, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoons: Dan Misdea, Ali Solomon, Brendan Loper, Adam Douglas Thompson, Nathan Cooper. See them here. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Donald Wins The War On Crime” Cartoon Highlights 2006-2015: the latest in a series of selected New Yorker
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___________________________________________________________________________ Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing Documentary Film Premieres Today At The Woodstock Film Festival Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing premieres today at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, New York. From the film’s website: “In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with
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