We’re now into the second week of a New Yorker double issue, dated January 4th & 11th. The Monday Tilley Watch, usually appearing here on this day, will return next week, when the issue of January 18th appears. In the meantime here’s a Spill Cartoon Detective piece. The Tale Of The Three Barlows…Or Is It Two Barlows? This little tale
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Weekend Spill; Attempted Bloggery On Bliss’s Addams Homage; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 21-25, 2020; The First “Boxing Day” New Yorker Cover
______________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Bliss’s Addams Homage Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at the recent New Yorker cover by Harry Bliss — billed as a homage to the great New Yorker artist, Charles Addams. How are they alike; how are they different. Read the piece here. ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist is… Liana Finck, who began contributing
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Wednesday Spill: The 2020 New Yorker Holiday Party
The New Yorker Holiday Party 2020 I’ve missed just a few New Yorker holiday parties over the years. Weather did in several (a memorable evening in the early 1990s when my wife and I headed down the Taconic Parkway, cruising along at 20 mph in a snowstorm…we turned back at the Bull’s Head Road exit, with nearly 100 miles
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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker “Cartoon Issue”… December 28, 2020; Book Stuff!
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The December 28, 2020 Issue: The Cartoon Issue It’s been nine years since The New Yorker‘s last officially designated “Cartoon Issue.” Last year’s “Cartoon Takeover” (subtitled “A Semi-Archival Issue”) was in the ballpark, but not the same
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