The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: it’s the Fall Books Issue, with the theme of the issue hammered home with this (now familiar) modernized Eustace heading the Table of Contents. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists. The Spill counts duos as
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Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection It’s taken awhile to get hold of a dust jacketed copy of William Steig’s very first cartoon collection, Man About Town but finally one has arrived here at Spill headquarters. Published in 1932 by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith; hard cover, unpaginated, on good paper stock that has held the
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P.C. Vey Interviewed On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Here’s the very latest episode of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast…this one with guest, P.C. Vey. Enjoy! Mr. Vey began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993 (in the episode you’ll learn he was contributing ideas — Charles Addams’s name pops up — previous to his own drawings showing up in
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Ads From Gluyas Williams & William Steig Warren Bernard is back at it, happily scanning ads for us to enjoy. Here’re just a few from his latest batch sent to the Spill. My thanks as always to him for foraging, selecting, scanning, and sending! Gluyas Williams* The Saturday Evening Post, November 8, 1941, and below, Collier’s, March 14, 1942 Peter Arno** Look,
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