The Weekend Watch: Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On “Very Funny Ladies” Cover; The Tilley Watch Online, March 1-5, 2021; Cops & Robbers Cartoons 1939-1969 From Dick Buchanan’s Files

The Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing

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The Weekend Spill: New Addition To The Spill Library; The Tilley Watch Online; Videos (And An App) Of Interest: Liza Donnelly Exhibit At The Norman Rockwell Museum

_________________________________________________________________________ New Addition To The Spill Library Part of the Spill‘s (self charged) charge is to keep in mind all those cartoonists who have been and are part of The New Yorker, not just the names up in lights. Larry Reynolds, having contributed to several of the biggest magazines of his day (including Collier’s, and The Saturday Evening Post) also

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Wednesday’s Spill: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s; Two New (Old) Additions To The Spill’s Cartoon Library

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s Julia Suits on turning the page.  Ms. Suits began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. Yesterday’s Daily cartoonist was Sara Lautman. Ms. Lautman began contributing to the magazine in 2016.   ______________________________________________________________________ Two New (Old) Additions To The Spill’s Cartoon Library Just arrived here at Spill headquarters: two books from the 1940s (Madam

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It’s A Gift!

Here’s a little gem of a cartoon collection I found not long ago.  Colliers had the very good habit of collecting cartoons that appeared in its pages.  It’s A Gift!, published in 1947, includes work by New Yorker contributors John Ruge, Gardner Rea, Virgil Partch aka VIP,  Hank Ketcham, Larry Reynolds, Garrett Price, and Barney Tobey.  The editor, Gurney Williams,

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