Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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Note: Hoping yesterday’s tech issue has been fixed! Some material (the Comic-Con book news) from the semi-posted-Saturday Spill is repeated here. The San Diego 2025 Comic-Con Souvenir Book…And an Editing Glitch Addressed The 2025 Comic-Con online-only Souvenir Book can be read here. I was honored to be asked to write a New Yorker cartoon-centric piece (“A Century of Ink
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Tilley Watch Online, July 14-17, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Barbara Smaller, Ali Solomon, Kit Fraser, P.C. Vey, Paul Noth. See them all here. Shouts & Murmurs: J.A.K.’s “The Aging Millennial’s Guide To Summer” _____________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The
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