The Weekend Spill; A Smaller Daily Shouts; A Playboy Cartoon; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 29 – August 3, 2019

  A Smaller Daily Shouts: “Course Of Empire: Part 5” — Ms. Smaller has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1996. Further reading from The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank blog and from Jane Mattimoe’s A Case For Pencils. _________________________________________________ A Playboy Cartoon Not too very long ago — fifteen years? — if you asked a cartoonist to name the

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The Wednesday Watch: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; New Market Watch…Air Mail; Donnelly Live-Draws Dem’s Debate; A Susanne Suba Re-Issue

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Desert drinks by Lila Ash, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018. __________________________________________________________________ New Market Watch Considering the narrowing avenues for cartoonists , it’s always a brighter day when a cartoon-carrying publication is launched.  We now have two (online-only) issues of former Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter’s Air Mail to peruse. You’ll find

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Happy 93rd, George Booth!; Articles Of Interest: Maira Kalman, Ken Krimstein; Ali Fitzgerald’s Daily Shouts; The Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons: Lila Ash, Liz Montague

Happy 93rd George Booth! Here’s to one of The New Yorker‘s greatest artists, George Booth, born 93 years ago today in Cainsville, Missouri. Above: Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976) Mr. Booth at the Society of Illustrators, November 2017 for the opening of George Booth — A Cartoonist’s Life East Side Main St., Cainsville, Mo. The Essential George Booth,

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Lila Ash; Pratt & Eckstein & Cartoons & Books

Today’s Daily Cartoon/Cartoonist: Poetry in motion via the plastic bag by Lila Ash who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018. ________________________ Pratt & Eckstein & Cartoons & Books From Pratt’s website, “New and Noteworthy: Summer Reading By Pratt Alumni”  — Bob Eckstein‘s latest book, The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Cartoon Books is cited. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to

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