Weekend Spill: Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest…Edward Koren At The Peabody Essex Museum; Article Of Interest: Zach Kanin; Latest ToonStack…”Deep Dark Droll Fears”; The Tilley Watch Online, September 27 – October 1, 2021

Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest: Edward Koren We’ll have to wait til March of 2022 to see “Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but it’ll be worth it. All the information here.   Edward Koren’s A-Z Spill entry:  Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work:

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Wednesday Spill: Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars; Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A 1990 New Yorker Promotional Brochure; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons

Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual  — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two

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Tuesday’s Spill: Cartoonists Drawing Other Cartoonists’ Cartoons; Re-Revisiting The New Yorker’s First Cover; The Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Cartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists  to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen

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