Weekend Spill: Personal Cartoon History; Unfinished Business: Shaw’s Blank New Yorker Drawing & Alan Dunn’s; From Attempted Bloggery…S.J. Perelman & Victoria Roberts Intersect At A French Laundry; The Tilley Watch Online, November 1-5, 2021

________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the

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Weekend Spill: The Best Part Of Waking Up Is New Yorker (?) Coffee In Your Cup; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of October 11-15, 2021: More Spills…Reuben Awards, Podcasts Posted

The Best Part of Waking Up Is New Yorker(?) Coffee In Your Cup This product is new and news to me. I’m a Maxwell House person myself, but found this coffee of interest. Haven’t tried it, so cannot report on its aroma. I wonder if the coffee-makers have captured the essence of the magazine. The good news is that this

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online; Video Of Interest: Ivan Ehlers; A Cover Reveal; James E. Kirchman Added To The A-Z; Rea Irvin’s Talk Of The Town Masthead: A Primer

  The Tilley Watch Online An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sarah Kempa, Colin Tom, Caitlin Cass, Brendan Loper, Pat Achilles, Amy Hwang. Daily Shouts cartoonists: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, J.A.K. (with Ginny Hogan and Alex Connolly). …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: AOC’s gown. ___________________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Ivan Ehlers From Pocket

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Friday Spill: Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast; Stand-Up (With Cartoons) Of Interest; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Allenby Completes Her Walk Along The Continental Divide Trail; Interview Of Interest: Ali Solomon

Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast The Pad‘s co-hosts, New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw swipe at each other like kittens in this special, shorter bonus edition of the Pad.  Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999.  The duo announced that their next guest will be Mick Stevens*, who began contributing to The

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