Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 8-12, 2023; More Spills…Ed Koren’s Film Debut; Documentary Film: “Saul Steinberg’s Line”; Ivan Ehlers’ Graphic Account Of The Writers’ Strike Picket Line; A ToonStack Tribute To Sam Gross; Wertz Reviewed; Finck’s TED; Chast & Flake Talk; Caption Contest Podcast Begins New Feature; Happy 90th, Sid Harris!

Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of May 8-12, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Ellis Rosen, Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Sipress, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Suerynn Lee, (Ginny Hogan) with J.A.K. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Weinstein, Cosby, And Trump Play Around” ___________________________________________________________-  

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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cover Artist, Istvan Banyai: 1949-2022; The Tilley Watch Online, February 13-17, 2023; Book On The Horizon From Ellis Rosen; Late Library Addition: A National Lampoon Treasury

  New Yorker Cover Artist, Istvan Banyai: 1949-2022 The New York Times has reported the death of Istvan Banyai, who, contributed “more than a dozen” covers to The New Yorker, including the one shown here. The Times notes that Mr. Banyai died in mid-December of 2022.  From The Norman Rockwell Museum: “Istvan Banyai”  Wikipedia entry: “Istvan Banyai” From The Conde

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Weekend Spill: Liza Donnelly’s “History Of The New Yorker Cartoon” At The 92NY; More Booth! New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen’s George Booth Postscript; A George Booth Appreciation From The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, 2022; Sophie Lucido Johnson Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Signing Of Interest: Jeremy Nguyen; The Cartoon Pad Hosts Tee & Charles Addams Foundation Director

                   Liza Donnelly’s “History Of the New Yorker Cartoon” At The 92NY New Yorker historian (Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists), and long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, will be teaching two classes at the 92NY (formerly the 92nd St. Y) next week and the following. Link here to Register. 

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