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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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 25, 2020: CBS Sunday Morning’s Mini-Slideshow; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

It’s become (almost) the norm during these strange days, weeks, and months that the online digital edition of The New Yorker is not as yet posted by this time of day (early morning that is). Back in the pre-shutdown days it usually appeared in the wee hours (usually around 3 a.m.). There was even a time before that when it

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Peter Kuper Direct Draws Little Donald’s Sneeze; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Hartley Lin’s Tools Of The Trade; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s; Seth’s City; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; More Spills: Chast, Blitt

Calling his recent New Yorker piece, Little Donald’s Sneeze (After Winsor McCay’s ‘Little Sammy Sneeze’) a “Photoshop fest” Peter Kuper decided to do a sort of take 2 — without Photoshop.  Edward Sorel has referred to working this way as direct drawing. In an email, Mr. Kuper told the Spill: “I had to check if my McCay drawing chops were

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