Weekend Spill: An R.O. Blechman Book Of Drawings & Writing; Thurber Scarves!; Tilley Watch Online: The Week Of January 18-22, 2021; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist

  Coming in June of this year from the terrif R.O. Blechman, One The One Hand/On The Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories Of R.O. Blechman/The Writing Of R.O. Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). Read far more here. Here’s Mr. Blechman’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New

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Tuesday Spill: Video Of Interest With Emma Allen & Lars Kenseth; Chatfield Spotlights Steed; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s…Today’s Daily Bonus Cartoonist; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Latest Blitt Kvetchbook

Video Of Interest: Emma Allen & Lars Kenseth The latest video in a series with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen zooming with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time it’s Lars Kenseth. Watch the video here (with a cameo appearance by Peter Arno’s classic March 1, 1941 New Yorker drawing, “Well, back to the old drawing board.”). Visit

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Weekend Spill: A New Yorker Artists Group Photo From 1984; The Tilley Watch Online, July 27-31, 2020

___________________________________________________________________________________ A fun evening at Parsons School of Design back in October of 1984. The occasion was the opening of a group show of New Yorker art. The group photo above and the smaller photos, by T. Dovidio, appeared in The Village Voice. Below is a barely legible key (sorry!) to the artists shown. One person is unknown to me.

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More Zoomin’ Cartoonists; Today’s Bonus Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon, Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon, & Yesterday’s; Randomly Pulled From The Spill’s Library Shelves

The Norman Rockwell Museum continues its zoomed panel discussions next Tuesday, August 4th with Liza Donnelly and myself.  Link here for all the info. Liza Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. A retrospective of her work, Comic Relief  is currently on exhibit at The Norman Rockwell Museum. Link here for my bio. ____________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Bonus Cartoon is

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