More Mahrer New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding” Bill Maher continues “decoding” New Yorker cartoons with his guests. This week his guest is Gavin Rossdale. Watch here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sunday Reading…Back to The Beginning Above are books containing work that energized me as a little kid, and prompted me to draw. Every cartoonist rests on a foundation of work by others. Every now
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I thought it would it would be fun to do a sort of quick (upsidedown) family tree of the graphics that swept me along to the present day. If you’ve been reading the Spill for awhile, you’re probably aware of some of this. While it’s my past I’m talking about, some of the “branches” very likely apply to a lot
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Personal History…MAD The upcoming MAD Magazine exhibit at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts has stirred up a lot of MAD memories — all good ones. When I first started
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Exhibit Of Interest: Bob Staake The Spill occasionally notes events of non-cartoonist New Yorker artists. The Cape Cod Museum of Art is currently showing the work of Bob Staake, who has contributed a number of New Yorker covers over the years (23 according to his website, from 2006 through 2020, thus far), including the one shown top right from the
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