Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 18-22, 2022 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: David Ostow, Luke Kruger-Howard, Ali Solomon, Trevor Spaulding, Pat Achilles. Daily Shouts: Liana Finck. _________________________________________________________________ Liam Walsh Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Walsh began contributing to The
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A Spill Easter Tradition: here at the Spill, Easter Sunday is an occasion to dust off and post a decades-ago rejected cover of mine (rejected by The New Yorker that is). My memory is that I was in a Charles Addams-y kind of mood when I did
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The Tilley Watch Online, March 28 – April 1, 2022 A Listing Of New Yorker Artists Whose Work Appeared On newyorker.com Features During The Week Daily Cartoon: Mick Stevens, Tom Toro, Maik Banks*, Ali Solomon, Zoe Si. Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald, Liana Finck. …Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Will Smith And Chris Rock At The Oscars: What Really Happened” __________________________________________________________________ Reminder! David
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