Wednesday Spill: A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon; Excerpts From Liza Donnelly’s Documentary Film “Women Laughing” To Be Shown At Swann

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon I came across the below Richard Decker New Yorker drawing the other day (it was published June 28, 1952, not quite midway in his 38 year year run at the magazine). This drawing has so much going for it, I had to stay with it for awhile. I’ve no idea if it was

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Monday Spill, The New Yorker Issue Of June 16, 2025

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: A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. Of the twelve, yours truly is the longest active contributing cartoonist. No newbies. One duo (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). This week’s cartoons (in a slide show). The Cartoon

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Sunday Spill: More Maher New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding”; Sunday Reading…Back To The Beginning

More Mahrer New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding” Bill Maher continues “decoding” New Yorker  cartoons with his guests. This week his guest is Gavin Rossdale. Watch here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sunday Reading…Back to The Beginning Above are books containing work that energized me as a little kid, and prompted me to draw.  Every cartoonist rests on a foundation of work by others. Every now

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