A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
Read moreCartoon Pad Pod Guest: Teresa Burns Parkhurst Those wacky hosts, Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw are back with another installment of the Cartoon Pad pod. This week’s guest is Teresa Burns Parkhurst, who began contributing to The New Yorker in the Fall of 2017. Link here to listen. You can see some of Ms. Parkhurst’s New Yorker work here. ___________________________________________________________________
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 18-22, 2022 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: David Ostow, Luke Kruger-Howard, Ali Solomon, Trevor Spaulding, Pat Achilles. Daily Shouts: Liana Finck. _________________________________________________________________ Liam Walsh Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Walsh began contributing to The
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