And now there’s a cover for the Harry Bliss & Steve Martin collaborative cartoon collection. We’ll see it on sale November 17th (Celadon Books). The Spill first ran a piece about their New Yorker duo efforts back in March of 2019. _______________________________________________________________________ Searle’s 100th Celebrated Today marks the 100th birthday of the late great Ronald Searle, New Yorker cartoonist &
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The Tilley Watch
Last week in this spot I noted and silently wondered about the latest issue of The New Yorker (dated October 29) barely touching on Halloween (other than a witches and broomstick drawing by Seth Fleishman). This week’s issue, dated November 5, solves the mystery with its trick-or-treating Trumpian cover. I think we’ve now seen enough of him on the cover to
Read moreA Lot of Searle on Attempted Bloggery; A New Yorker State of Mind Looks at the New Yorker of May 11, 1929; Cartoon Companion Rates the Very Latest New Yorker Cartoons
A Lot of Searle on Attempted Bloggery Attempted Bloggery has turned its attention to various Ronald Searle materials (books, auction items, etc.). See it all here. Mr. Searle’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Ronald Searle (pictured above) Born, Cambridge, England March 3, 1920. Died, December 30, 2011, Draguignan, France. Steven Heller, who wrote Searle’s obit for The New York Times
Read moreThe Spill Talks Mirror Balls and Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman
I took notice when Seth Fleishman’s first cartoon, uniformed cows standing over a table, appeared in the New Yorker in the issue of April 4, 2016 (it appears below). Sometimes a new cartoonist’s work (the drawing itself and/or the caption) will appear slightly awkward (my first New Yorker drawing fits both those categories), but Mr. Fleishman’s work seemed like it
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