The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a Chastian placemat The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has the cover, and Liana Finck has a “Sketchbook”). There’s one duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The
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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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Personal History: Cape May’s “Pink House” On this humid morning I decided to pinch a fan from my wife’s studio. I don’t think she’ll mind as she’s twenty-eight hundred miles away in Cal-i-forn-i-a. Heading out of her studio, fan in hand, I took a detour into a narrow adjacent room which is home to some of our New Yorker odds
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Happy 96th George Booth! The Spill wishes the great New Yorker artist George Booth a very happy birthday. At 96, Mr. Booth is the magazine’s senior contributing artist. photo: Liza Donnelly and Roz Chast celebrating with Mr. Booth today. Mr. Booth’s latest New Yorker drawing is in the brand new issue, dated July 4, 2022. You can see it
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