To my readers: This being the time we’re in, the online issue has not yet been posted (as of 11:00am), so what follows is a shortened version of The Monday Tilley Watch. Long-time visitors might recall I prefer first sightings of new cartoons in situ, but in order to provide at least some basic info, I’ve gone to the slideshow
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The Weekend Spill: Unboxing A Box Of Steinbergs & Steigs; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 2-6, 2020; James Stevenson Documentary At Martha’s Vineyard Film Fest; More Spills…
___________________________________________________________________________________ So often when I go on a hunt for something in the Spill‘s archives I come upon some other thing that takes me off onto another track. Today for instance, while poking around piles of boxes, I came across the box you see above. Many years ago I filled the box with issues of The New Yorker bearing Steinberg
Read moreA New Charles Addams Collection!; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
An early afternoon trip to my local independent bookstore turned up a surprise: Addams’ Apple: The New York Cartoons of Charles Addams (Pomegranate); Foreword by Sarah M. Henry (deputy director and chief curator at The Museum of The City of New York) and Preface by Luc Sante (author, Guggenheim Fellow, and teacher at Bard College). Most appealing to me about
Read moreLiza Donnelly Returns To Oscar’s Red Carpet; A New Yorker State Of Mind: Thurber’s First New Yorker Drawing; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February 3-7, 2020
Liza Donnelly Returns To Oscar’s Red Carpet Liza Donnelly will be back on Oscar’s Red Carpet tomorrow night for her fifth year of live-drawing. Five years ago she made Oscar history by being the very first cartoonist to draw while on the Red Carpet. She began posting drawings yesterday, and will continue posting today, leading up to her coverage of
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