Last week in this spot I noted and silently wondered about the latest issue of The New Yorker (dated October 29) barely touching on Halloween (other than a witches and broomstick drawing by Seth Fleishman). This week’s issue, dated November 5, solves the mystery with its trick-or-treating Trumpian cover. I think we’ve now seen enough of him on the cover to
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First Look: The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons
A review copy of the slip-cased two volume New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons has landed here at the Spill. After sitting with it a day I’ve some initial thoughts: The very first impression, before the shrink wrap was removed, was how heavy the set is ( 14.9 pounds). An earlier tome, 2004’s Complete New Yorker Cartoons of The New Yorker
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of June 18, 1984
As mentioned here last week, it’s double issue time again. We’re halfway though it now ; only a week til the new issue (dated June 18, 2018) appears online early Monday morning. Just for fun I thought I’d go back to another June 18th issue — the one from 1984. Here’s the cover, by Susan Davis, who contributed fifteen covers
Read moreAnnouncement of Interest: The James Stevenson Prize
From Broadway World, May 16, 2018, “Playing On Air Announces Celebrity Judges For Inaugural James Stevenson Prize” — This news of “three monetary prizes for new short comedic plays that honor and perpetuate the spirit and wit of Mr. Stevenson.” Mr. Stevenson’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New
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