Saturday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…West Coasters Panel; The Tilley Watch Online, December 8-12, 2025; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of Nov. 30, 1935

Fave Photo Of The Week: “West Coasters” Panel East Coaster New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton, visiting out on the West Coast, attended last night’s West Coaster panel discussion at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, took the photo below, and was kind enough to send it along to the Spill. (Thank you, Robert!). Pictured l-r, Cartoon Art Museum curator, Andrew Farago,

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Saturday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935; Rea Irvin’s “The Smythes”; The Tilley Watch Online, November 24-28, 2025

A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935 Need some fun post-Thanksgiving, post- Black Friday reading? Look no further than this latest entry from A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine.  — Cover by Constantin Alajalov The Spill‘s Alajalov A-Z Entry:           Mr. Alajalov’s

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Tuesday Spill: Robert Leighton’s 20 Year Cartoon Retrospective; New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen And Cartoonist Roz Chast In Conversation; Tina’s Version

Robert Leighton’s Twenty Year Cartoon Retrospective Robert Leighton, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2002, has been posting a drawing a day from each year he’s been with the magazine. You can see them all (so far) here on his Instagram account. ________________________________________________________________________ Emma Allen And Roz Chast In Conversation From The Art Students League, notice of a

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Friday Spill: New Yorker Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”

Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” A boffo opening reception last night at The Society of Illustrators for their Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit. Over 500 folks jammed into the Society (a record for any event ever held there). Above is a group photo (spliced together from a video taken by

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