Francoise Mouly On The Passing Of Aline Kominsky-Crumb When I saw the sad news of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s passing the other day, I got up from my work table and walked a few steps to a bookshelf that holds the small number of “underground” comics I’ve managed to hold onto since the mid 1970s. I knew that I wouldn’t have
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 21-25, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Gabrielle Drolet, Amy Hwang, Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s Associate Cartoon Editor), Maggie Larson, Ari Steinberg, Jared Nangle. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (and Ella Quitner), Julia Wertz. Barry Blitt’s
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Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to
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We cartoonists, a compact community, draw a little bit closer when we lose one of our own. This week we lost our friend, the great New Yorker artist, George Booth. George was a part of The New Yorker’s landscape for more than half the magazine’s life (his first drawing appeared in 1969).The Spill has asked George’s fellow artists to share
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