Monday Spill: Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws!; Latest Additions To The Spill Library…A German Arno Collection & A Giant Stack Of Cartoonist Profiles; An Ad For A Great Collection By Gluyas Williams — “The Genial Gentle Wit”

We’re halfway through two weeks covered by the New Yorker double issue of December 26th, 2024 & January 6th, 2025. The regular Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday, January 6, 2025. Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws!  Here’s a fun short video the terrif Peter Steiner posted on social media. Mr. Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979.

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, December 23-27, 2024; Thoughts While Perusing A 115 Year Old Issue Of Judge

The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 23-27, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Niall Maher (as of this writing, an online only cartoonist contributor),Tyson Cole, Dimita Rizou (as of this writing, an online only cartoonist contributor), Tom Chitty, Joe Dator.  See all the Daily

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Monday Tilley Watch: Event Of Great Interest…”Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”; The New Yorker “Cartoons & Puzzles” Issue Of December 23, 2024

“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”     Longtime New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly has curated a whiz-bang of a show at The Society of Illustrators, properly kicking off 2025, the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker‘s birth. “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” features well over a hundred pieces of original art covering the magazine’s

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Wednesday Spill: Edward Sorel’s New Yorker Horse Drawn Carriage Cover: A “Funny Sight Gag” Or Tina Vs. Ross? Or Tina & Ross?

Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized

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