Weekend Spill: Personal Cartoon History; Unfinished Business: Shaw’s Blank New Yorker Drawing & Alan Dunn’s; From Attempted Bloggery…S.J. Perelman & Victoria Roberts Intersect At A French Laundry; The Tilley Watch Online, November 1-5, 2021

________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the

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Thursday Spill: Ken Krimstein Segment On Tomorrow’s CBS Morning Show; Article Of Interest…Spill One Clubber, Adolph Schus; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Thurber Thursday…60 Years Ago This Month

  Ken Krimstein Segment To Air On Tomorrow’s CBS Morning Show Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000, will be interviewed by CBS correspondent, Jim Axelrod about Mr. Krimstein’s fabulous new book, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six Yiddish Teens.  (the program is broadcast from 7 – 9 in the Chicago area).  Visit

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Weekend Spill: Happy Halloween!: An Ink Spill Interview Compendium; The Tilley Watch Online, October 25-29, 2021; Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery

                                                        Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.

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Wednesday Spill: Exhibit Of Interest…Shannon Wheeler; Daily Cartoon & Cartoonist

Exhibit Of Interest…Shannon Wheeler Too Much Coffee Man himself, Shannon Wheeler, will be having an exhibit of his New Yorker work (as you can see on the accompanying poster). Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009. Visit his website here.      Mr. Wheeler posted this fun photo of the poster drawing on his work table.  _______________________________________________________________________

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