The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Bruno Pieroni, who is the 14th cartoonist added to the magazine’s colosseum of artists this year, and the 179th brought in since Emma Allen
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Sunday Spill: Personal History…Mystery New Yorker Tube
Personal History…Mystery Tube This morning, while passing through the Spill cartoon library, I noticed some objects on a top shelf that needed to be rearranged (or else they’d fall off the shelf). Not wanting to bother bringing a chair over to stand on, I glanced around for something long enough to reach the top shelf so I could poke the
Read moreSaturday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935; Rea Irvin’s “The Smythes”; The Tilley Watch Online, November 24-28, 2025
A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935 Need some fun post-Thanksgiving, post- Black Friday reading? Look no further than this latest entry from A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. — Cover by Constantin Alajalov The Spill‘s Alajalov A-Z Entry: Mr. Alajalov’s
Read moreFriday Spill: A Post-Thanksgiving Cartoon
A Post Thanksgiving Cartoon Thanksgiving-time is the only time the Spill indulges itself by posting two drawings in a row. Here’s my post-Thanksgiving drawing originally published in The New Yorker, December 8, 2014.
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