The Weekend Spill: ToonStack #2; The Tilley Watch Online, March 15-19, 2021; Illustrated Odds & Ends

            ToonStack #2 The second ToonStack Newsletter has been posted. The contributors include Navied Dahvanian, Hillary Campbell, Kendra Allenby, Johnny DiNapoli, Ellis Rosen, J.A.K., Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Avi Steinberg, and Sofia Warren. See all the work here. _______________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 15-19, 2021 An end of week listing of

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Wednesday’s Spill: Steinberg’s Masks; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Daily Shouts Cartoonists

Steinberg’s Masks Attempted Bloggery shows us several auctioned Inge Morath photos of Steinberg masked. Want to see more, there’s always Saul Steinberg Masquerade, published by Viking Studio in 2000. Here’s Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:   Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker work: 1941 – (The New Yorker publishes his work posthumously).

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Updike’s Thurber

Above:  John Updike’s Thurber dog drawing, courtesy of Miranda Updike What can I say: I love intersections (I even live at one). Not long ago I wrote about my leaving Manhattan to live on a dairy farm in a sleepy town on the edge of the Catskills. It turned out the town once was home of Dr. Fitz Foord’s sanitorium,

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Friday Spill: A Couple Of Signed Steinbergs; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Daily Shouts Cartoonist

A Couple Of Signed Steinbergs One of the many fun things Attempted Bloggery posts are signed books by cartoonists, often with a sketch by the artist (or artists). Here are two posts in a row with Steinberg collections signed by the great man himself, with additional art. Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat,

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