We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
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Along For The Ride Funny how some things accompany a person for decades, somehow surviving the moves from state-to-state, apartment-to-apartment, house-to-house, and so on. The humble Koh-I-Noor case above is an example. It and its contents: a few stubby color pencils, a slim green dowel from who-knows-what, and a dried something or other — have been with me
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: fishin’ The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). Two newbies: Rachel Deutsch, and Eddie Ward, who are the 19th and 20th additions to the
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