Friday Spill: “Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery; The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portraits Of My Community”; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Chicago Magazine Article Of Interest: Ken Krimstein: Bob Eckstein Illustrates New And Renovated Bookstores

“Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery Thanks to Daniel Borinsky via Stephen Nadler’s terrif Attempted Bloggery we have this survey of “good provider” New Yorker cartoons over the decades.  Read it all here. — above: Barney Tobey’s “good provider” cartoon from The New Yorker, June 25, 1984  ___________________________________________________________________ The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portrait Of My

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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of November 15, 2021; David Sipress Has A Website (Finally!); Edward Sorel In Virtual Conversation

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Tilting The Cartoonists:  Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). Sam Gross, the magazine’s 5th longest active cartoonist contributor (his first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969)

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Thurber Thursday: James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Felipe Galindo; A Steinberg Exhibit; Barbara Smaller At The Chief-Leader; More Spills…Donnelly, Dator

James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject.   James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker

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