The Weekend Spill: Donnelly & Thurber’s Influence; A Thurber Event At The Society Of Illustrators; The Tilley Watch Online; Interview Of Interest: Seth; Chris Ware In Conversation With Chip Kidd

Donnelly & Thurber’s Influence From The Cleveland Plain Dealer (cleveland.com), September 1, 2019, “James Thurber continues to influence today’s cartoonists”  — this piece by Marilyn Greenwald ___________________________________________ A Thurber Anniversary Event At The Society Of Illustrators From The Society Of Illustrators, this notice of a Thurber event this coming October. Coinciding with the 125th birthday celebration publication of Collected Fables

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90th Birthday Of Interest: Arnold Roth; The Tilley Watch: The March 4, 2019 New Yorker; Video Profile Of Interest: Cover Artist Jenny Kroik; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Kim Warp

Today’s the 90th birthday of the one-and-only Arnold Roth. There’s a nice birthday tribute to him on The Daily Cartoonist. From The Spill Vault: I had a great time chatting with Mr. Roth a few years ago for this Spill piece on his John Updike Bech book covers. Here’s Mr. Roth’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Arnold Roth Born, Philadelphia,

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Article Of Interest: John Cuneo; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon; Fave Photo Of The Day: Emma Allen & Mort Gerberg; Article Of Interest: Will McPhail; New Yorker Cover Artist Jenny Kroik’s Tools Of The Trade On Case For Pencils

From Hudson Valley One, January 31, 2019, “Woodstocker captures the President for New Yorker covers and more” — this article on New Yorker cover artist, John Cuneo. . Today’s New Yorker Daily cartoon, featuring a political Frankenstein, is by David Sipress. See it here. Mr. Sipress began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1998 ________________________________________ Fave Photo Of

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