Wednesday Spill: Eustace Tilley Visits Paper Airplane’s Cover

Here’s something you don’t see too often* (not including parody issues): Eustace Tilley “visiting” another magazine’s cover. The cover illustrator: Kaitlin Brito. Paper Airplane is publishing its first paper issue, and if you look beyond the table in the foreground on the issue’s cover, you’ll see Tilley’s coat and hat, and Ms. Brito’s version of Tilley, seated, with a cup

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Monday Spill, The New Yorker Issue Of March 9, 2026

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist (I began contributing in 1977). This week’s

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Saturday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The 11th Anniversary Issue; The Tilley Watch Online, February 23-27, 2026

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Eleventh Anniversary Issue (February 22, 1936). Of note: special attention is paid to the magazine’s first food critic, Sheila Hibben. Read it here! –Cover by Rea Irvin (of course!). ____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, February 23-27, 2026 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared

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