Tuesday Spill: Latest Addition to The Spill Library…”Coping With The ’70s” — A New Yorker Advertising Booklet Includes Drawings By Saxon, Modell, Chon Day, Barsotti

Latest Addition to the Spill Library: Coping with The ’70s — a New Yorker Advertising Booklet The number of New Yorker ad booklets seems endless. I wonder if anyone kept track of how many were produced. Just this week, six more have been added to the Spill‘s library (the other five haven’t arrived yet — I’m just showing you the

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Tuesday Spill: First & Last…Chon Day

First & Last…Chon Day… A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last Most cartoonist’s styles begin one way and end another (there’re exceptions, always exceptions!). Case in point in the change column is Chon Day. His first New Yorker cartoon below, published in 1931, looks nothing like his last, published in 1998.

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, July 3-7, 2023; Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A WW II-Era New Yorker Bound Volume

The Tilley Watch Online, July 3-7, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: this cartoonist, Ellis Rosen, Akeem Roberts, Zoe Si, Colin Tom. Daily Shouts: Kendra Allenby. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Former President’s Mug Shot Unearthed” ________________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library This 78 year old

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Tuesday Spill: Happy Birthday, Edward Koren!; Book On The Horizon…Roz Chast’s “I Must Be Dreaming”; Latest Cartoon Pad With Drew Dernavich & Paul Nesja: Mort Gerberg On Lee Lorenz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDWARD KOREN! The Spill wishes the one-and-only Edward Koren a very happy 87th birthday! Mr. Koren is The New Yorker‘s longest active contributing artist. His first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of May 26, 1962.  Visit his website here.  The Spill‘s interview with Ed Koren appeared earlier this year. Read it here.    ________________________________________________________________________  Coming in

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