Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Slide Show…”Oh, The Humidity” With Hokinson, Weber, Cotham and Fifteen More; The Tilley Watch Online, August 12-16, 2024; Book On The Horizon…”Singular Sensations: A Cultural History Of One-Panel Comics In The United States”

                                     New Yorker Slide Show: “Oh, The Humidity!”    Eighteen cartoons about the sticky icky, includes work by, among others, Helen Hokinson, Robert Weber, Liza Donnelly (shown to the left), Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Frank Cotham, Ali Solomon, Maggie Larson, and David Sipress. See

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch, July 8-12, 2024: Charles Saxon’s First & Last New Yorker Covers.

The Tilley Watch Online, July 8-12, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ellis Rosen, Ali Solomon, Adam Douglas Thompson, Ivan Ehlers, Sarah Kempa. Shouts & Murmurs: Eugenia Viti, Adam Douglas Thompson. Sketchbook: Sofia Warren Link to The New Yorker‘s Humor & Cartoons section _________________________________________________________________    

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Tuesday Spill: A Parade Of Styles

Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).  

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Wednesday Spill: A Great Cartoon

  A Great Cartoon I’ve a shortlist of remembered cartoons in my brain that never ever fail to amuse and inspire. Cartoons such as these are often referred to as “evergreens.” They’re not tied into current events, or a fad, or a word or phrase of the moment.  I’m not going to list my favorite evergreens here, but will put

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