The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of January 18, 2021; A Passing Note: Ved Mehta; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Interview Of Interest; Liza Donnelly; Article of Interest: James Stevenson Exhibit At The Bruce Museum

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: As mentioned here last week, the cover (shown above), by Edel Rodriguez was early-released. Here (once again) is the Cover Story post with him. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists and seventeen cartoons. One newbie: Jacob Breckenridge,

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The Wednesday Spill: Donnelly’s “So You’re A Democrat And You Won…”; Herblock In The New Yorker? Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Dator); Swann’s January Illustration Auction With Works By John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Frank Modell, Alajalov, and More; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; A Note About The Spill’s A-Z

From Liza Donnelly, this evergreen, published in The New Yorker November 17, 2008 — _________________________________________________________________ Herblock In The New Yorker? Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Dator) Last night, The Spill received an email from the fab New Yorker cartoonist, Joe Dator that spirited this cartoonist away for awhile from watching political coverage. Here’s Mr. Dator’s email, almost in its entirety.

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The Weekend Spill: Today’s Daily Shouts: Ward Sutton On Proposed Trump Monuments; Sean Connery, 1930-2020; Steig Shell Ads; Weekend Daily Shouts Cartoonists; An Addams Scrapbook With A Puzzling Cartoon; More Addams Family; The Tilley Watch Online, October 26-October 30, 2020

__________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts: Ward Sutton On Proposed Trump Monuments. Mr. Sutton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here.   ___________________________________________________________ In honor of Sean Connery, who played James Bond like nobody’s business, this drawing of mine from the archives, published in The New Yorker, August 14, 1995 (Mr. Connery passed away either late Friday

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