Early Cover Release: It’s been a short while (the last was John Cuneo’s Trump/handcuffs cover of June 10, 2024) since The New Yorker has released a cover image earlier than the usual Monday morning at 6 a.m.. The magazine’s editors’ endorsement of Kamala Harris in the October 7th issue undoubtedly has much to do with the rush release. Cover art
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A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: John Cuneo’s timely piece, released last week… Trump’s cuffs The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (John Cuneo has the cover). Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). Two newbies: Chris
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Roz Chast Receives The First Thurber Prize for American Cartoon Art From Medium, via The Daily Cartoonist, June 1, 2024, this reporting by Liza Donnelly on Thursday night’s big to-do with Roz Chast in Columbus, Ohio. [the Spill will have more on the event tomorrow] — left: I asked Ms. Chast for
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