_______________________________________________________________________________ The Spill introduces a new column today, The Auction Watch. I spend a lot of time window shopping on ebay, looking for New Yorker things I’ve never seen before. When I run across something out of the norm, I’ll mention it here. The Auction Watch will in no way step on Attempted Bloggery‘s toes. That’s the place to go
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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 Issue: A First Last week in this space I wrote: Next week will be a double issue — the last issue of 2021, and the first of 2022. I believe — although I’m not 100% sure — it
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Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest
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Ken Krimstein’s Graphic Novel On Washington Post’s Best of 2021 List A hearty congrats to Ken Krimstein on his new book When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six Yiddish Teens being named one of The Washington Post‘s Best Graphic Novels of 2021. Related: From The Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2021: “What We’re Reading: When I Grow Up is
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