The Monday Tilley Watch, which usually appears in this place at this time, will be back next Monday as we’re in the second half of the last New Yorker‘s double issue week (the issue dated July 9 & 16, 2018). In its stead, this brief puzzlement: A Hmmmm About Spinach Above: Carl Rose, E.B. White, A Can of Spinach
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A Spill Favorite Leftovers Cartoon…and a Bonus; A Trio of Non-New Yorker Cartoon Books of Interest; The Tilley Watch Online: Loper, Larson, Rosen, Flake, Gerberg, Warp, and Finck; John Lennon’s (New Yorker) Diaries
A Spill Favorite Leftovers Cartoon…and a Bonus Yesterday I posted an evergreen Thanksgiving drawing by Bob Eckstein. Today, an evergreen for the day after. This Liza Donnelly drawing appeared in The New Yorker, November 26, 2007. Ms. Donnelly has also provided the Spill with an unpublished cartoon that I particularly like. _________________________________________________________________________ A Trio of non-New Yorker Related Books
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 2, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. October already? Well yes — that’s the way it is on magazine covers. Always one week ahead of reality (or if it’s a monthly, one month ahead of reality). The cover of this weeks issue, graphically speaking, reminded me of Gretchen
Read moreJohn Lennon: “I was about 15 when I started Thurberizing the drawings.”
Back in December of 2013 Ink Spill ran a piece, “John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection.” To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, I’m re-posting that piece, albeit in slightly edited form. Anyone familiar with John Lennon’s and James Thurber’s drawings can’t help but see some cross-pollination from Thurber to Lennon. Lennon’s drawings, published in 1964’s In His Own
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