Weekend Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…Sorel Gets His Reuben; A Merle Nacht Original; The Tilley Watch Online, November 7-11, 2022

Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben   Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Nurit Karlin Archive To Columbia University; Meet The Artist (1943): Otto Soglow

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Compared to Baby Yoda, by Lila Ash. Ms. Ash has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2018. Visit her website here. ______________________________________________________- Nurit Karlin’s Archive To Columbia University A Facebook announcement from Columbia University’s Karen Green: Here’s Nurit Karlin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Nurit Karlin (above. Photo taken at a Playboy holiday party,

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Janis Joplin’s Thurber; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Donnelly At The College Of New Jersey; Fave Photo Of The Day

Janis Joplin’s Thurber From the Dept Of I Didn’t See This Coming: Reading through Dwight Garner’s New York Times review of the new Janis Joplin biography, “Janis,” by Holly George- Warren: “She named a dog Thurber, after James Thurber, the New Yorker humor writer.” — left: Thurber and Ms. Joplin   ___________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon From Barbara Smaller,

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Robert Crumb And Aline Kominsky-Crumb At Columbia This Fall; The Tilley Watch Online, July 15-19, 2019; Fave Photo Of The Day: Some New Yorker Folks At The San Diego Comic Con; NYTs Opinion Piece Of Interest: “The Vicious Fun Of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle”

  Robert Crumb And Aline -Kominsky Crumb At Columbia This Fall Columbia University’s Curator For Comics and Cartoons, Karen Green, announced at the San Diego Comic Com that Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Peter Bagge will be appearing this Fall at Columbia University…no further info at the moment.  Here’s the article from The Beat, July 20, 2019, “Things Go Off

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