Saturday Spill: Liza Donnelly On Mary Petty; The Tilley Watch Online, July 28-August 1, 2025; Fave Photo Of The Weekend…Roz Chast & Patty Marx In Coney Island

Liza Donnelly On Mary Petty Long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly, continues her series on the magazine’s women cartoonists with “The Cartoons of Mary Petty” … Mary Petty’s A-Z entry: Mary Petty Born, Hampton, New Jersey, April 29,1899. Died, Paramus, New Jersey, March, 1976. New Yorker work: October 22,1927 – March 19, 1966. Collection: This Petty Pace ( Knopf, 1945)

Read more

Weedsy Wednesday Spill…The “E” In “The”; Bill Maher And John Leguizamo “Decode” New Yorker Cartoons; Reminder… Joe Dator Original Cartoons Available!

Weedsy: The “E” In “THE”  If you enjoy weedsy, this Spill entry is for you. The other day I was looking at Rea Irvin’s cover art for the very first issue of The New Yorker when I noticed something I’d never noticed before: the lowest arm of the “E” in the word “THE” has a bit of an angle to

Read more

Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

Read more

Tuesday Spill: J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher Decoded Cartoon; A John Held, Jr. After Shave Cream Ad

J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher “Decoded” Cartoon  J.C. Duffy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, has posted his New Yorker drawing that was discussed (or “decoded” as Mr. Maher puts it) in the latest clip of Maher describing New Yorker cartoons and then reading the captions (without actually showing the drawing itself). Mr. Maher’s decoding is

Read more