Liza Donnelly Returns To Oscar’s Red Carpet; A New Yorker State Of Mind: Thurber’s First New Yorker Drawing; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February 3-7, 2020

Liza Donnelly Returns To Oscar’s Red Carpet Liza Donnelly will be back on Oscar’s Red Carpet tomorrow night for her fifth year of live-drawing.  Five years ago she made Oscar history by being the very first cartoonist to draw while on the Red Carpet. She began posting drawings yesterday, and will continue posting today, leading up to her coverage of

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Book Of Interest: Gerald Scarfe’s Memoir; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist

    Book Of Interest: Gerald Scarfe’s Memoir Here’s a title I missed: Gerald Scarfe’s memoir, Long Drawn Out Trip, published by Little, Brown last Fall. Mr. Scarfe was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker during the Tina Brown era (1992-1998). Link here to the publisher’s page.     __________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Jon Adams on Trump’s

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The Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, January 20-24, 2020; Marathon Effort Of Note: Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Impeachment Trial; Emily Flake In Baltimore; A Must See: John Cuneo At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium

_____________________________________________________________________________ An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, Jon Adams, Brendan Loper (twice), Carolita Johnson Daily Shouts: Liana Finck Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook To see all of the above and so much more, link here. _____________________________________________________________________________ A Marathon Effort Of Note: Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Impeachment Trial Liza

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Mr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago; Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks; The Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf of Baghdad” Out Next Week; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Mr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago Apparently, I was, unusually, way ahead of a developing story.  Here’s a drawing of mine published by The New Yorker in 2000 (it was within a double issue: Dec. 25, 2000/January 1, 2001). _______________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks From Chicago Magazine, January 22, 2020, “The Weird, Whimsical World Of Rich Sparks” — this

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