The Wall Street Journal Rewrites A Pat Byrnes Cartoon Caption Long time New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes (he began contributing in 1998) posted the following on Facebook this afternoon: Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran the cartoon below on the right. On the left is the original caption. They bought it in November, 2017. I wrote it months before
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of March 16, 2020
The Cover: Talk about yer timely cover: you might think that the cover on the left, by I. G. Haupt, is this week’s New Yorker cover, but it’s not. It appeared August 31, 1929*, not too long before “Black Monday”; the cover on the right appears this week on the magazine — “The Spring & Style” Issue. I’m reminded of
Read moreReminder! New Yorker Cover Artist John Cuneo This Tuesday At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium
The one-and-only John Cuneo, New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist, will be speaking this coming Tuesday evening at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium. All the info here.
Read moreThurber Thursday: An Assortment Of Paperbacks; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Thurber Thursday One of the best things about visiting a used book store is coming upon the unexpected. Nearly all of the above came to me that way. Of all these, my favorite cover is one of the simplest: the 1962 edition of Thurber Country, published by Penguin Books in Great Britain: Finally, if you want a brand new Thurber
Read moreKenneth Mahood’s 1958 Cartoon Collection; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Mahood’s 1958 Cartoon Collection: Not A Word To A Soul Ordered not long ago (for one dollar(!), plus s&h) from a seller across the big pond, Kenneth Mahood’s 1958 cartoon collection arrived today and has been added to the Spill‘s cartoon library. Was very happy to see the dust jacket (and a protected dust jacket at that) in such great
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