Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Weekend Spill: Video Of Interest…Frank Cotham; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024; Ads Using Cartoons In A 1948 Issue Of The New Yorker

Video Of Interest: Frank Cotham               From WKNO -TV,  “A Conversation With Frank Cotham.” Mr. Cotham’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of  December 13, 1993 (read a Spill piece about the 20th anniversary of that debut here). ____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024 An end of the

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, September 16-20, 2024; An Original Otto Soglow Strip Auctioned; Amy Kurzweil’s TED Talk; Donnelly Projected!

The Tilley Watch Online, September 16-20, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Stephen Raaka, Ali Solomon, Chelsea Saunders (an online contributor), Adam Douglas Thompson, Anjali Chandrashekar. Shouts & Murmurs: Julia Wertz “What Am I Reading These Days” An Apple A Day: A gallery of apple picking

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Friday Spill: Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Irvin, Hokinson, Soglow, Shellhase, Hamilton Originals On Ebay

Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Hokinson, Soglow, Hamilton, Shellhase Originals On Ebay   There’s life in original cartoon art — the markings, the “mistakes,”(often covered up with white out), the errant fingerprints, the ink and/or pencil or watercolors on paper, the aged (or not) color of the paper –all of it. Here’s a gathering of some of the original art

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