Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Bob Eckstein …and Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon & Daily Shouts; Blog Of Great Interest: A New Yorker State Of Mind; More Spills…

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Sports Not Cancelled by Bob Eckstein, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2007.  Visit his website here. …and Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon — outer space distancing, by Avi Steinberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2012.       Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist From Paul Karasik, “It’s Time To Start Talking

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The Weekend Spill: Chuck Jones’s Eustace; The Cartoon Takeover Issue; The Tilley Watch Online, December 22-28, 2019

Here’s something new to me: the great Chuck Jones  take-off on Eustace Tilley. The poster can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Cartoon Takeover It was an exciting week in The New Yorker cartoon world, what with the arrival of the magazine’s first ever Cartoon Takeover issue (covered here last Monday). For everyone who says that the first thing they turn

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The Weekend Spill: Happy 125th James Thurber!; Three New Yorkers; New Cast Album For Arno’s 1930’s Musical “The New Yorkers”; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 2-6, 2019

Happy 125th James Thurber! Anyone who follows the Spill knows that James Thurber is a mighty big deal around here. I’ve written numerous times over the years how seeing his drawing, “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” changed everything for me. Today marks the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth.  Michael Rosen’s recently published A Mile and a Half of

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