Weekend Spill: Swann Offers Original Art By Lorenz, Booth, Ziegler, Miller, Hamilton, Toro, Steiner, Gross, Taylor, Reilly, Chast, Stevens, Handelsman, Bull, Mankoff, Weber; Book On The Horizon…Yinfan Huang; CBS Sunday Morning Looks At The Work Of Barbara Shermund;The Tilley Watch Online, May 18-23, 2025

A good number of original drawings from the Lee Lorenz estate are among the numerous offerings  in the upcoming Swann Illustration auction. Mr. Lorenz was The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 – 1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 through 1997). Here are just a few of the offerings: A George Booth proposed cover from 1976… This drawing from Robert

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Tuesday Spill: Pub Day For “At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Pub Day For “Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund”

Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen

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