Tilley On The Vineyard Paul Karasik sent the above Tilley-on-the-island drawing to my attention. Wanna see the rest of it, including the caption? Go here to The Vineyard Gazette. Mr Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sempe On Walls From Swissinfo, “Cartoonist lightshow brightens up Geneva nights” — 54 works by the
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Kuper’s MAD Cover Word has reached the Spill that Peter Kuper‘s first MAD cover appears on the magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Mr. Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011, has been a MAD contributor for 26 years, writing and illustrating one of that magazine’s iconic features, Spy vs. Spy. Mr. Kuper tells the Spill that he
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Back To Birnbaum Nearly five years ago — April 9, 2016 to be exact — I posted “New Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum, Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is” and I showed a scan of Philip Hamburger’s first book, The Oblong Blur with an Abe Birnbaum cover. I loved that cover at first sight, and always had it on my
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Coming in June of this year from the terrif R.O. Blechman, One The One Hand/On The Other Hand: The Art & Graphic Stories Of R.O. Blechman/The Writing Of R.O. Blechman Published & Unpublished (Fantagraphics). Read far more here. Here’s Mr. Blechman’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New
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