It snowed yet again here this morning in the Hudson Valley. A good opportunity to (once again) take a stab at organizing one of the Spill’s archive rooms. It’s been a long and semi-fruitful quest to arrange things so I know where to find them. Yesterday I dealt with piles of loose copies of The New Yorker, arranging them by
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Seventeen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, and there’s a “Sketchbook” by the late very great Jack Ziegler). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Debora Szpilman, the first new addition to the
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Now That’s A Cover! Ilonka Karasz again returns to the Spill’s cover series not long after appearing in the Spring. It might seem I’m in a Karasz phase, but the truth of it is I don’t look for any particular artist’s work as I go through the New Yorker‘s covers (often using The Complete Book Of Covers From The New
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Last night, in the company of Liza Donnelly, I spent a few hours touring the Swann Galleries Illustration auction preview in Manhattan — looking over a goodly number of New Yorker original art. Besides seeing the art (Jack Ziegler! Peter Steiner! Mick Stevens! J.B. “Bud” Handelsman! Chast! Tom Toro! Suba! Robert Weber! George Booth!…and more) we were there for
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