Fave Throw Back Photo Of The Day It’s going to come as no surprise to habitual visitors to this site that the Spill would find the above photo fascinating. What you’re seeing is just a glimpse of the black binders in The New Yorker’s library. Every New Yorker writer and artist’s work is collected in these (scrap)books. The last
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A cover reflecting the theme of the issue: Style & Design The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Eleven cartoons, twelve cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). No newbies, no duos (that we know of). The Sam Gross
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Very Funny Ladies…Indexing Cartoonists are often asked which comes first: the pictures or the words. My answer has always been (for me): I dunno. But lately, as we near Fall and the publication of an updated edition of Liza Donnelly’s 2006 Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, words seem, if not first, then
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Personal History: My First 10 (New Yorker Cartoons) I’ve always loved making lists — a habit that eventually resulted in creating the Spill‘s New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z. Somewhere in this house is a list of the first (vinyl) albums I bought: when I bought them, where I bought them, and how much I paid. When I got into The New
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