Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of September 30 – October 4, 2024; Seeing “Married To Comics”

Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of September 30 – October 4, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper, Ellie Black, Jimmy Craig, Tom Toro, Alison Wong (an online only cartoonist). Daily Cartoon Gallery Shouts & Murmurs: Erika Sjule, “Ten Things I Miss Now That

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Tuesday Spill: An Art Spiegelman Documentary; Gluyas Williams On Being A Cartoonist: “It’s Lots Of Fun (At Times)…”

= An Art Spiegelman Documentary   Disaster Is My Muse is an in-progress documentary film about Art Spiegelman, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. Visit the film’s website here where you can view a  “sizzle reel” that includes another New Yorker contributor, Robert Crumb, as well as the magazine’s current cover editor, Francoise Mouly.   –above photo

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Personal History: A Graphic Family Tree

I thought it would it would be fun to do a sort of quick (upsidedown) family tree of the graphics that swept me along to the present day. If you’ve been reading the Spill for awhile, you’re probably aware of some of this. While it’s my past I’m talking about, some of the “branches” very likely apply to a lot

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Weekend Spill: Exhibit Of Interest… Bob Staake; The Tilley Watch Online, July 10-14, 2023; More Early Influences

Exhibit Of Interest: Bob Staake The Spill occasionally notes events of non-cartoonist New Yorker artists. The Cape Cod Museum of Art is currently showing the work of Bob Staake, who has contributed a number of New Yorker covers over the years (23 according to his website, from 2006 through 2020, thus far), including the one shown top right from the

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