The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Apartment hunting, NYC-style, by Marcellus Hall. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Frank
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“The Funniest Funeral Ever” Above: Liza Donnelly, and Rick Meyerowitz The f-bombs were flying fast and funnily at cartoonist Sam Gross’s funeral on Thursday. A number of other choice words were delivered in the spirit of celebrating Mr. Gross, who was famous
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Latest Guest On The Cartoon Pad…Lars Kenseth New Yorker cartoonists and Cartoon Pad co-hosts, Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw speak with funny guy Lars Kenseth in this latest episode. Lars talks about sports, cartoonists, and his creepy clown drawing (published November 14, 2016) — the first ever New Yorker cartoon referencing the magazine. Listen here. Lars Kenseth began contributing to
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We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
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