Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s “Spot” Drawings From The New Yorker, December 22, 2025, “Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s Spot Art” Ms. Allen has been the magazine’s cartoon editor since May of 2017. ____________________ Otto Soglow’s A-Z Entry: Otto Soglow Born, Yorkville, NY, December 23, 1900. Died in NYC, April 1975. New Yorker work: 1925 -1974.Key collections: Pretty
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Fave Photo Of The Week: “West Coasters” Panel East Coaster New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton, visiting out on the West Coast, attended last night’s West Coaster panel discussion at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, took the photo below, and was kind enough to send it along to the Spill. (Thank you, Robert!). Pictured l-r, Cartoon Art Museum curator, Andrew Farago,
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Bruno Pieroni, who is the 14th cartoonist added to the magazine’s colosseum of artists this year, and the 179th brought in since Emma Allen
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______________________________________________________________________________ Interview of Interest…Emma Allen From a Substack I somehow missed…until now: Saran Wrapped Letters, September 28, 2025, “A Conversation With Emma Allen” Ms. Allen has been The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor since May of 2017. _____________________________________________________________________________ Women Laughing Screens Online Couldn’t make it to the New York City screenings of Women Laughing, Liza Donnelly’s documentary film about New
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