Personal History…Mystery Tube This morning, while passing through the Spill cartoon library, I noticed some objects on a top shelf that needed to be rearranged (or else they’d fall off the shelf). Not wanting to bother bringing a chair over to stand on, I glanced around for something long enough to reach the top shelf so I could poke the
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Saturday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935; Rea Irvin’s “The Smythes”; The Tilley Watch Online, November 24-28, 2025
A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935 Need some fun post-Thanksgiving, post- Black Friday reading? Look no further than this latest entry from A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. — Cover by Constantin Alajalov The Spill‘s Alajalov A-Z Entry: Mr. Alajalov’s
Read moreFriday Spill: A Post-Thanksgiving Cartoon
A Post Thanksgiving Cartoon Thanksgiving-time is the only time the Spill indulges itself by posting two drawings in a row. Here’s my post-Thanksgiving drawing originally published in The New Yorker, December 8, 2014.
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Wednesday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…R. Crumb’s “Tales Of Paranoia”
Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library: R. Crumb’s “Tales Of Paranoia” I’m not sure what led me to the Fantagraphics page promoting R. Crumbs newest work, Tales Of Paranoia — all I know is that the intro text on the page won me over: “THE FIRST R. CRUMB COMIC BOOK IN 23 YEARS! The seminal cartoonist who single-handedly invented
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