Now That’s a Cover! On this dreary January day here in the northeast, with a grey sky, and snow lingering at the edges of streets, I thought we could use a bit of blue. Here’s a fun cover from Leonard Dove. I love the simplicity of it, as well as Dove’s use of the magazine’s edge where we see the
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Fave Photo Of The Week: “West Coasters” Panel East Coaster New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton, visiting out on the West Coast, attended last night’s West Coaster panel discussion at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, took the photo below, and was kind enough to send it along to the Spill. (Thank you, Robert!). Pictured l-r, Cartoon Art Museum curator, Andrew Farago,
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Tom Toro’s And To Think We Started As a Book Club… The book is out next Tuesday. If you’re in the Hudson Valley, you can see Tom in conversation with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, October 16th. Here’s the October Toro book tour schedule: ____________________________________________________________________________ West Coast Exhibit Of Interest San
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Wheeler, Chatfield, Donnelly, Chatfield, And More On Jules Feiffer From The Comics Journal, February 3, 2025, “Remembering Jules Feiffer” — a number of artists, including The New Yorker folks mentioned above, weigh in on Mr. Feiffer who passed away on January 17th of 2025. _________________________________________________________________ Rea Irvin’s The Smythes From New York Review Comics, word of a forthcoming
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