Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly & Edward Frascino This photo taken yesterday in Santa Monica. Ms. Donnelly is visiting the left coast, Mr. Frascino lives there. Edward Frascino began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 1965 (he was the subject of an Ink Spill interview in 2020, celebrating his 90th birthday). Ms. Donnelly began contributing
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Closing in on the end of a seemingly long double-issue two weeks — a new issue will come out next Monday — I thought it would be fun to try out a new addition to the Spill: First & Last. It’s been an interest of mine, when thinking about certain New Yorker artists, to automatically look into what their first
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The latest addition to the Spill library arrived yesterday: a bound volume of New Yorkers, covering October-November 1972. I have a particular fondness for this era of the magazine because this was the period when I really began paying attention to the magazine’s cartoons. (I’d begun sending in batches of cartoons to the magazine in 1971 while still in high
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Nuts The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in this issue that we know of: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski). There’s also a newbie, Teresa Wong, who
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