Here’s part two of the Summertime slow New Yorker news week with a few of my New Yorker pool drawings (thank goodness for butlers and whales!). _____________________________________________________________________ Dates of publication: “We’ll take it.” June 13, 1983 “If you splash, expect to be splashed back.” August 26, 2013 “Sir, a Mr. Krueller, of the real world.” August 26, 1985 “Bob up
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Just days away from the Fourth of July, things are fairly quiet in New Yorker cartoonland. The cartoon department has unplugged for a couple of weeks, and the latest issue of the New Yorker is a double (we won’t see a new issue until July 14th!). I thought this might be a good moment to head to the beach via
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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 In this double issue: sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Ed Steed has Spots). No duos, that we know of, and no newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker
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Latest Additions to The Spill Library: Through the kindness of two friends of the Spill, two book deliveries arrived at my door this week. Here’s the first: What you see above, from the top down: The very first New Yorker Album …a heart-stopper whenever I see a dust-jacketed copy. This one has (amazingly, considering its age: 97 years) retained the
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