The Latest Bill Maher New Yorker Cartoon Decoding Episode Bill Maher has a good laugh looking at Mick Stevens’ June 4 2007 New Yorker drawing in the latest “decoding New Yorker cartoons” episode (featuring a not so game Whitney Cummings).
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Saturday Spill: Video… Donnelly & Maslin On the 4th; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 30 – July 4, 2025; Books On The Horizon…Toro, Chatfield
Video: Donnelly & Maslin On The 4th Liza Donnelly invited me to join her live, on her July 4th Substack. We talked about all sorts of things New Yorkery, then drew our takes on a 1941 James Thurber July 4th New Yorker cover. Watch here. _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, June 30 -July 4, 2025 An end of the week
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Friday Spill: The New Yorker’s First 4th Of July Cover
It didn’t take long for The New Yorker to have its first July 4th cover (by that I mean, an issue dated July 4th). Ilonka Karasz delivered this Coney Island-centric beauty — her fourth New Yorker cover — when the magazine was less than six months old. Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick,
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Thurber Thursday: “Is Sex Necessary?” Redux
Two weeks ago today I Spilled about getting hold of the 1950 21st anniversary edition of James Thurber & E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary? (and not too long before that I mentioned buying a 1990 modern edition). This past Sunday, after some time browsing at my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn, I was about to head out the door when
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