Personal History: A Note From Willard Scott Back in the early 1980s I happened to stay overnight at a home belonging to a couple with a toddler. In the morning (a time of day I was not accustomed to seeing in those years…I was a night owl) the child appeared next to me (I was asleep on the living room
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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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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: For the Fiction Issue, a Holly Golightly moment, with cat, sans acoustic guitar. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). Three duos in this issue, no newbies. The Cartoons: As might
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The Cover: Gayle Kabaker’s lone surfer seems to hit the right mood as we close in on Labor Day (the unofficial end of Summer?). Read a brief Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: There are two duos, one of them new to the magazine: Julia Leigh & Phillip Day. Sophie Lucido Johnson & Sammi Skolmoski, the other duo made their
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