The Weekend Spill: A Roz Chast Exhibit… “At Home”; Happy 88th Birthday, Sam Gross!; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 1-7, 2021; The New Gomez

______________________________________________________________________ A Roz Chast Exhibit: “At Home” Well here’s something fun to see not too far off from today: ______________________________________________________________________ The Spill wishes the great cartoonist Sam Gross a very happy 88th birthday! Sam Gross Born August 7, 1933, Bronx, NY. New Yorker work: August 23, 1969 -. Other than his work in The New Yorker Gross is probably best

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Weekend Spill: Case For Pencils Spotlights Ali Solomon; The Latest ToonStack: “Grrrripes”; The Tilley Watch Online, July 26-30, 2021

Case For Pencils Spotlights Ali Solomon Jane Mattimoe’s fab Case For Pencils blog features Ali Solomon this week.  Ms. Solomon’s new book (shown here) is just out. Go here to see more of her work. Don’t forget to visit the Case For Pencils archive where you’ll find a spectacular line up of previously featured cartoonists.   _________________________________________________________________________ The Latest ToonStack:

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Weekend Spill: 10 Questions In 10 Minutes For Jason Chatfield; Latest ToonStack: “Kids”; The Online Tilley Watch, June 21 -25, 2021; They’re Practically Giving It Away

An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, J.A.K., Sara Lautman, Brendan Loper Daily Shouts: Arantza Pene Popo, Ali Solomon (with Janine Annett), Jeremy Nguyen (Zareen Choudhury) …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Joe Manchin Has A Plan” __________________________________________________ They’re Practically Giving It Away The last time I checked Amazon (five minutes

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Friday Spill: Latest Cartoon Pad Podcast With Guest, Jason Chatfield; Interview Of Interest: Barry Blitt; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Sara Lautman; Two Daily Shouts Cartoonists

Latest Cartoon Pad, With Guest Jason Chatfield This new-ish fun series, with hosts, New Yorker cartoonists, Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw, continues with today’s episode featuring Jason Chatfield. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Michael Shaw in 1999; Jason Chatfield in 2017.     ______________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Barry Blitt From Connecticut Magazine, May 27, 2021, “New

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