New Book On The Horizon: Cover Revealed For Send Help!, A Collection Of Desert Island Cartoons; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Here’s the cover for the upcoming desert island cartoon collection, Send Help!, edited by New Yorker cartoonists, Jon Adams, and Ellis Rosen. It’s on the shelves November 9th. (full disclosure: this cartoonist is among the contributors) _________________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Monday’s: Mick Stevens on a complicated sunny forecast. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Visit

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Friday’s Spill: Book On The (Distant) Horizon; Today’s Daily Cartoon & Cartoonist

We’ll have to wait til November 9th for this one, now listed on its publisher’s website. Scant info…additional information will be posted when available. From Voracious/Little Brown, Send Help! A Collection Of Marooned Cartoons, edited by two New Yorker cartoonists, Ellis Rosen, and Jon Adams. _____________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Kim Warp, on taking back from the poor. Ms.

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Thurber Thursday: Conversations With Thurber; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Article Of Interest: Eckstein & Shaw’s Elements Of Stress; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Zoom Panel Of Interest: “…The Power Of Black Ink”; More Bliss & Martin

Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online November 9-13, 2020

The Tilley Watch Online, November 9-13, 2020 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Kim Warp, Jon Adams, Avi Steinberg, Peter Kuper, Lars Kenseth. __________________________________ Daily Shouts Eugenia Viti (and Ginny Hogan): “Reasons I’m Happy To Run Into A Casual Acquaintance” Millie von Platen (and Ivan Ehlers): “Russian-Literature Reality TV”

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