Tuesday: Flake Illustrates B’Way Production, “All In: Comedy About Love”; Covers Revealed For New Yorker’s 100th Celebration Of Fiction & Poetry; Dorothy Parker’s “Constant Reader” Collected

Flake to Illustrate All In: Comedy About Love From Broadway.com, September 23, 2024, “Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon and More to Join All In on Broadway” — (Ms. Flake’s participation mentioned at the very end of the article). Visit Emily Flake’s website here.  Ms. Flake began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008. ________________________________________________________________________ Covers Revealed For New Yorker’s 100th Celebration

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Weekend Spill: “At Wit’s End” Back Cover Reveal; The Tilley Watch Online, August 19-23, 2024; Hartley Lin Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Sunday Update…Dan Misdea Wins NCS Single Panel Cartoon Reuben Award

                                             “At Wit’s End” Back Cover Reveal  The cover of At Wit’s End, a collection of 52 New Yorker cartoonist portraits (Foreword by The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen; essays by yours truly), has been online for a

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Friday Spill: Just Arrived…”At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Article Of Interest…Paul Noth; Harry Bliss’s Graphic Memoir, “You Can Never Die”

                                 Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of

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Weekend Spill: An Algonquin Grouping; Sipress in L.A.; GalleryThe Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 15-19, 2024

An Algonquin Grouping   I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the

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