Starting off the first week of the new year with an early Thurber Thursday…so it’s Thurber Tuesday… After approximately fifty years of collecting Thurber, you might think the Spill library would be in the vicinity of complete, Thurber-wise (not that there really is such a thing as complete). But one major title has always been missing. Thinking about why it
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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 Issue: A First Last week in this space I wrote: Next week will be a double issue — the last issue of 2021, and the first of 2022. I believe — although I’m not 100% sure — it
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Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest
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Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Thursday’s Daily Cartoon: from Shannon Wheeler, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009. Visit his website here _________________________________________________________________________ Karasik On R. Kikuo Johnson Link here to Paul Karasik’s Comics Journal review of New Yorker cover artist R. Kikuo Johnson’s new graphic novel, No One Else (Fantagraphics). Mr. Karasik began contributing cartoons
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