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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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: doggies looking at a biscuit The Cartoonists: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos, such as this week’s combo of Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, as one cartoonist). No newbies. No collaborations (other than Johnson/Skolmoski)
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: For the Fiction Issue, a Holly Golightly moment, with cat, sans acoustic guitar. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). Three duos in this issue, no newbies. The Cartoons: As might
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Happy 95th, George Booth! Our very best wishes to New Yorker cartoon god, George Booth! The Spill‘s George Booth entry: George Booth Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat (Dodd, Mead, 1975), Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead, 1976), Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth (Congdon
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