The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, October 5-9, 2020; Interview Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil

The Tilley Watch Online An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brooke Bourgeois, Ellis Rosen, Kim Warp, Zoe Si, J.A.K.. Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes And Ellis Rosen. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook To see all of the above, and more, link here. _____________________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil From Fiction Advocate, October

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The Wednesday Spill: WSJ’s Charles Preston, 1921-2020; Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly Speaks To The International Center For Journalists; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts

WSJ’s Charles Preston, 1921 -2020 Charles Preston,The Wall Street Journal’s “Pepper…and Salt” cartoon editor passed away last Friday at age 98. For 70 years (yes, 70!) he edited the “Pepper…and Salt” feature. The Journal‘s obit  quotes Mr. Preston as once saying: “I’ve looked at more cartoons than anyone in the history of mankind.” A number of New Yorker artists found

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The Weekend Spill: Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival; Congrats To Amy Hwang; Zoom Updates: Links To Eckstein & Company At Milford Readers & Writers Fest, And David Sipress And Emily Flake At Spencertown Academy Arts Center Event; Gauld’s Modern Fairy Tale; The Tilley Watch Online, September 7-11, 2020

___________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Groucho’s Hokinson Festival Here’s a fun post from Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery on Groucho Marx’s copy of The Hokinson Festival spotted in a photo. The Festival, published seven years after Ms. Hokinson’s  death, is a great addition to any cartoon library. A bonus: it includes color plates of a few of her sixty-eight New Yorker covers.

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Thurber Thursday: “Thurber At 125” & “Dorothy Parker On…Thurber”; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Daily Shouts Roundup; Keith Knight’s “Woke” NYTs Review

Here’s a short film and article I missed: from the Ohio State University Alumni Magazine, Summer 2019, “James Thurber At 125” …and one more post missed: from Literary Hub, August 2019, “Dorothy Parker On Her Old Pal James Thurber” (a reprint of Ms. Parker’s wonderful introduction to Thurber’s  1932 collection The Seal In The Bedroom with some fun pieces from

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