Weekend Spill: A Good Book; The Tilley Watch Online, March 6-10, 2023; Donnelly On Day Four Of Oscar Week: “Oscar Statue Day”

A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen

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Friday Spill: Liza Donnelly Returns To The Oscars; Latest Cartoon Pad Pod With Guest Ali Solomon; Book On The Horizon From Peter de Seve; Pod Of Interest With Guests David Sipress, Bob Eckstein, Christopher Weyant

Liza Donnelly Returns to The Oscars Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982, is returning to live-draw the Oscars. This will mark her 6th appearance at the big show. She announced her return this morning on her Substack, Seeing Things. Read all about it here.  Ms. Donnelly made history by being the first-ever cartoonist to live-draw on

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