Drawing Like I Used To Back in late high school, and then in college, I suddenly found I was drawing a certain way (I guess some would say it was a style of drawing; I’ve never been comfortable with “style” — it seems limiting). This way of drawing ended up in two self-published collections, Somewhere Above The Jugglers And Dogs
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_______________________________________________________ Thurber Thursday On A Friday [Thurber Thursday was delayed until today because of the passing of Robert Gottlieb] Regular Spill readers might recall that I enjoy accidentally running across “different” covers for Thurber’s books. Today I came across a UK edition of In A Word, a book written by Margaret Ernst, with drawings by Thurber. Amazing that after
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 5-9, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ivan Ehlers, Sarah Kempa, Felipe Galindo, Brooke Bourgeois, Ben Schwartz, Evan Lian. Daily Shouts: Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley), Ivan Ehlers. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “A Little Indictment Music” __________________________________________________________________________
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Fave Stand-Up Photos Of The Day: Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake We’re used to seeing photos of cartoonists at their drawing boards, hovering over their work. But here are some photos taken last night of four New Yorker cartoonists (mostly) not sitting down, but standing up, doing stand-up, on stage, in front of their projected drawings. The occasion: “Funny On Paper;
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