The Weekend Spill: Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 30, 2019 – January 3, 2020

                                       Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings From Princeton University’s Firestone Library Special Collections, “Henry Martin’s Spots” — this piece on Mr. Martin’s considerable Spot Drawing contribution to The New Yorker during his thirty-five year run at magazine. Here’s a fun photo from the article: Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin (Photo: 1984). Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky.

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The New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Blitt’s Kvetchbook; New Yorker Cartoonist Newbies 2019

New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo. It’s only taken me twenty-two years to notice that the New Yorker switched its cover placement of the issue date and issue price. Since the very first issue, published February 21, 1925, the issue date appeared top left, and the price upper right. Seventy-three years after that first issue, in the summer of 1998,

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The Weekend Spill: Chuck Jones’s Eustace; The Cartoon Takeover Issue; The Tilley Watch Online, December 22-28, 2019

Here’s something new to me: the great Chuck Jones  take-off on Eustace Tilley. The poster can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Cartoon Takeover It was an exciting week in The New Yorker cartoon world, what with the arrival of the magazine’s first ever Cartoon Takeover issue (covered here last Monday). For everyone who says that the first thing they turn

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Barry Blitt’s Latest Kvetchbook: J.D. Salinger; “New Yorker Cartoons For The Holidays”

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Teresa Burns Parkhurst on ice skating. Ms. Parkhurst began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. More of her New Yorker work can be seen here. ___________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist “Classic Instagram Poses To Confuse People About Whether You’re Dating Someone” — a joint effort by Jason Adam Katzenstein, who wrote the piece &

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