The Tilley Watch Online…January 8-12, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Christopher Weyant, Shannon Wheeler, Ali Solomon, David Ostow & Ellis Rosen, Sarah Kempa Daily Shouts: Sarah Akinterinwa See them all here. ___________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library: The New Yorker July-August 1959
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Friday Spill: Charles Saxon’s New Canaan Home
Charles Saxon’s Home From the New Canaanite, January 4, 2024, “New Canaan Now & Then: Stevens-Verleger-Deerson-Saxon House”–-This bit of history about the late great Charles Saxon’s Connecticut home. Saxon’s A-Z Spill Entry: Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920, died in Stamford, Conn., Dec 6, 1988. New Yorker work: 1943
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Tuesday Spill: A Parade Of Styles
Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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Wednesday Spill: Charles Saxon…Could He Draw, Or What?
Charles Saxon: Could He Draw Or What? Some years back, the Spill archive acquired three Charles Saxon drawings at auction. Each seemingly tied into an ad campaign or perhaps illustrations for a book or article (they’re not captioned single panel
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