Beginning today and continuing through July 23 you’ll be able to stream (for ten bucks. Cheap!) the terrif documentary film, Stevenson: Lost & Found, directed by Sally Williams. All the info here. Last year there was a special screening in Brooklyn for New Yorker cartoonists — a splendid time was had by all (and it was an opportunity for a
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The Weekend Spill: A Book Of Interest On The Horizon; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 6-10, 2020
________________________________________________________________ It appears that this long-ago rejected cover painting is going to be a Spill Easter thing. ___________________________________________________________ An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism From The New Yorker and other Magazines, coming our way in July from Penguin/Random House. This from the publisher: A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists
Read more55 Years Ago Today; A Timely 1960 Frank Modell Cartoon; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; A Cartoonist At The Culture Desk; The Passing of Mad’s Mort Drucker
55 Years Ago Today The other day I mentioned that April 10th is the 55th anniversary of the publication of Mort Gerberg’s first New Yorker drawing (I Spilled the drawing published in that issue of April 10, 1965). It was, however, not the first drawing he sold to the magazine. His first sale appears above (quite a beginning!). It appeared
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Time Capsule: The New Yorker Issue Of March 21, 1931 Via A New Yorker State Of Mind
Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Mort Gerberg on Zoom(ing) this day. In just two days Mr. Gerberg will celebrate the 55th anniversary of his first published New Yorker cartoon, shown below. Visit his website here. Mort Gerberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Mort Gerberg Born, March 11, 1931, New York, NY. New Yorker work: April 10, 1965 – . Co-edited,
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 13-17, 2020; A Note About Next Week’s New Yorker
___________________________________________________________________________________ An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper (twice), Mort Gerberg, David Sipress, J.A.K. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat & Julia Edelman, Emily Flake …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook. To see all of the above and more go here. _____________________________________________________________________________ A Note About Next Week’s New Yorker Oddly,
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