Despite some internet challenges here at the Spill‘s temporary headquarters, I’m going to attempt a Monday Tilley Watch… The Cover: The debut cover by artist, Grace Lynne Haynes. Read Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: One of my favorite issues of the year, every year, is the early August New Yorker (in this instance, we have
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of July 20, 2020
Looking at the new issue I felt a bit like “Vacuum Man” from the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine — you know, the creature who sucks up everything around it, including itself. After what seemed like eternity during the double issue two week span, I was eager to in-take and take-in the cartoons. Left: Vacuum Man is the guy
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, May 18-22, 2020; A New Yorker State Of Mind Goes Deep Into The Issue Of May 2, 1931; Attempted Bloggery Shows Us Peter Arno’s Alemite Ads; Some Content Released For The Upcoming Cartoon Collection “All’s Fair In Love & War”
_________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 18-22, 2020 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Jeremy Nguyen, David Sipress, Paul Noth, Ellis Rosen, Ali Solomon Daily Shouts: Jason Chatfield (& Ethan Hall) …and: From the Culture Desk: Emily Flake’s “My Stupid Quarantine Body” Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Up
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Revisiting Joe Dator’s Classic “How We Do It”; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Revisiting Joe Dator’s Classic “How We Do It” Whenever I allow myself a moment to think about what it is I do for a living and the terrific people I share this weird occupation with, I think of Joe Dator’s fabulous New Yorker piece from the issue of September 24, 2012. It is one of my all-time favorite Joe Dator
Read moreThurber Thursday; Book On The Horizon: Tom Toro’s First Kids Book; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist: Olivia de Recat…And Yesterday’s: Sara Lautman
Thurber Thursday Above are all the (specifically) Thurber reference books in the Spill cartoon library. Thurber of course makes appearances in numerous New Yorker-centric books, such as Ross And The New Yorker; Genius In Disguise; Ross, The New Yorker & Me, etc., etc.), but these are the core group examining Thurber’s life. Of the above, I use three on a
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