Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Tom Toro’s “And To Think We Started As A Book Club…”; Cartoon Exhibit Of Interest On The West Coast / Advantage, East Coast Cartoonists? Nah.

Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Tom Toro’s And To Think We Started As a Book Club… The book is out next Tuesday. If you’re in the Hudson Valley, you can see  Tom in conversation with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, October 16th. Here’s the October Toro book tour schedule: ____________________________________________________________________________ West Coast Exhibit Of Interest San

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Sunday Spill: Christopher Weyant’s Reuben Award; Bill Maher “Decodes” New Yorker Cartoons with Chris Pratt

Christopher Weyant’s Award Congrats to Christopher Weyant (seen here in a photo posted on social media), who won the National Cartoonist Society award in the category of best single panel cartoons*  at the Reuben Awards in Boston on the 15th of this month. Mr. Weyant began  contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. Congrats also to

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Sunday Spill: Latest Additions To The Spill Library

Latest Additions to The Spill Library: Through the kindness of two friends of the Spill, two book deliveries arrived at my door this week. Here’s the first: What you see above, from the top down: The very first New Yorker Album …a heart-stopper whenever I see a dust-jacketed copy. This one has (amazingly, considering its age: 97 years) retained the

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Monday Spill: The New Yorker Issue Of July 24, 2023

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker  The Cover: Lemmings The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists* — the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There are two duos in this issue, that we know of. Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook.” There is one newbie, Niall

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