Coming in June of this year from the terrif R.O. Blechman, One The One Hand/On The Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories Of R.O. Blechman/The Writing Of R.O. Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). Read far more here. Here’s Mr. Blechman’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen & Lars Kenseth The latest video in a series with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen zooming with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time it’s Lars Kenseth. Watch the video here (with a cameo appearance by Peter Arno’s classic March 1, 1941 New Yorker drawing, “Well, back to the old drawing board.”). Visit
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The December 28, 2020 Issue: The Cartoon Issue It’s been nine years since The New Yorker‘s last officially designated “Cartoon Issue.” Last year’s “Cartoon Takeover” (subtitled “A Semi-Archival Issue”) was in the ballpark, but not the same
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The Cover: Kadir Nelson‘s cover celebrates the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Negro leagues. A Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt is the fifteenth, with a “Sketchbook”). The lead off cartoon is by one of our veteran cartoonists, Ed Frascino, who began contributing to The New
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