Case for Pencils Spotlights George Booth Documentary Filmmakers; More On Thurber’s Mile And A Half Of Lines; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Colin Tom

Check out Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils. She interviews the filmmakers now working on Drawing Life, the “partly animated film” about George Booth. ___________________ More on…A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber  A review copy — in pdf — of the upcoming Thurber title shown above has reached the Spill‘s headquarters. Michael Rosen, who

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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of April 15, 2019; Book Events Of Interest This Week…And A Live Podcast Of Interest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Lila Ash; Today’s Daily Shouts By J.A.K. & Julia Rothman

The Cover: Play ball!…or…ball in play!  A graphically pleasing cover by Mark Ulriksen.  Read about it here.  The Cartoonists: Note: Brooke Bourgeois is making her New Yorker print debut. Ms. Bourgeois is the 7th new cartoonist added to the stable this year and the 31st added under cartoon editor Emma Allen’s watch. The Cartoons:  The Spill spotlight falls on three

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Mort Gerberg At MoCCA With Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella, and Danny Shanahan: Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Pat Byrnes

A friendly reminder that this Saturday at 3:00  Mort Gerberg will join New Yorker colleagues, Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella, and Danny Shanahan at MoCCA to celebrate the publication of Mr. Gerberg’s On The Scene: A 50 Year Cartoon Chronicle (I’ll moderate).  All the info here! For a complete list of all the New Yorker folks at MoCCA this weekend go

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Eli Dreyfus; Liza Donnelly Curates MoCCA Int’l Cartoon Exhibit “Drawing Across Borders”; Seth At The Strand

Today’s Daily — basketball plus — is by Eli Dreyfus ,who first contributed to The New Yorker (as part of a duo, with Dan Abromowitz) in 2015. ________________________ Donnelly Curates Int’l Cartoon Exhibit: “Drawing Across Borders” Liza Donnelly has curated an exhibit of work by a number of international cartoonists from the organization, Cartooning for Peace. The work can be

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