Fave Photo Of The Week Ken Levine posted the below on social media the other day. A quintuple of cartoonists showed up to see Mr. Levine’s play, Back To The Drawing Board. — L-r: Lonnie Millsap, Lars Kenseth, Jose Arroyo, Ivan Ehlers, Mr. Levine, and Matt Diffee. _____________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Peter Kuper’s Wish We Weren’t Here
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker Note: the digital issue has not been posted as of yet (9:00 am this Monday)…I’m patching together today’s post using various information from other newyorker.com sources. I’ll correct any omissions, or errors, once the issue has been posted. The
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!) Friend of the Spill, David Pomerantz has sent in this outta-the-blue-never-woulda- believed-it-in-a-million-years story about a 1962 homemade horror film by New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Kraus, starring, of all people, Lee Lorenz. Link here for the full story (with more photos) in Famous Monsters magazine (the story begins on page 58). —My
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