The Wednesday Watch: Peter Kuper’s NYTs Silent Spring Piece; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Liza Donnelly’s World Wildlife Fund Earth Day Drawings; The Weekly Humorist’s Cartoon Desk

Peter Kuper’s New York Times Silent Spring Piece From The New York Times Book Review, this graphic review of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring by Peter Kuper, who’s on a roll this week — he also has a full page color Comic Strip in The New Yorker. (read a little about it here at The Daily Cartoonist; a link is supplied

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The Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Mary Gauerke; Cartoons In The Time Of Coronavirus; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 16-20, 2020

Article Of Interest: Mary Gauerke From Finger Lake Times, March 21, 2020, “Looking Back — Geneva artist broke barriers” — this piece on Mary Gauerke, who had three drawings published in The New Yorker: November 17, 1956 / April 13, 1963 / October 16, 1965.   _________________________________________________________________ Cartoons In The Time Of Coronavirus From Yahoo.com, March 20, 2020,  “Cartoonists are

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Two Podcasts Of Interest: Peter Kuper, Michael Shaw; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; A Daily Shouts By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Two Podcasts Of Interest Yet another terrif cartoonist interview by Gil Roth via his Virtual Memories podcast. Here he speaks with Peter Kuper (and not for the first time), who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Below: Mr. Kuper’s classic newyorker.com drawing, “Five Stages Of White House Employment.”   And…   Part One of the Michael Shaw interview

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Editor Of The New Cartoon Collection “Everyone’s A Critic” Talks To The Spill; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Peter Kuper… And Yesterday’s:Teresa Burns Parkhurst; Podcast Of Interest With Emily Flake

Today’s pub day for Everyone’s A Critic (Princeton Architectural Press), the second in what will be a series of cartoon anthologies edited by Bob Eckstein, New Yorker cartoonist, best-selling author, and world’s leading snowman expert. Here at the Spill, the arrival of a cartoon collection is always cause for a cartoonist hoo-rah.  This second book in the series features thirty-seven

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