Tuesday Spill: Article Of Interest: Olivia de Recat; Erika Sjule”s “I Went To A New Yorker Party!”

Article Of Interest: Olivia de Recat     From University Of Washington Magazine, February 25, 2023, “Drawn To A Good Love Story”  — this piece on Olivia de Recat, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2018.  Link here to Olivia de Recat’s website.      ________________________________________________________ Erika Sjule’s “I Went To A New Yorker Party!” From

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Weekend Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…Sorel Gets His Reuben; A Merle Nacht Original; The Tilley Watch Online, November 7-11, 2022

Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben   Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to

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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of March 14, 2022; A Shermund Commentary On Hokinson?; David Sipress On Today’s “Fresh Air”

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: About the war. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). One newbie: Erika Sjule,* who is the 7th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this year, and the 107th newbie brought

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Weekend Spill: Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Drew Dernavich; The Tilley Watch Online: November 22-26, 2021

Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While

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