Friday Spill: Washington Post Article Of Interest… Liza Donnelly’s “How We Draw Ourselves”; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1944 Collection: “He Who Laughs — Lasts!”

Washington Post Article Of Interest…Liza Donnelly’s “How We Draw Ourselves”  From The Washington Post, December 2, 2023, “How We Draw Ourselves: Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som and others reflect on cartoons, gender and feminism”  Long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly interviews Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som, Amy Hwang, Sara Lautman, Roz Chast, Sarah Akinterinwa, and Mads Horwath. _______________________________________________________________  Latest Addition To The

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Weekend Spill: Washington Post’s Sempe Obit; The Tilley Watch Online, August 22-26, 2022; Attempted Bloggery On Addams’s “Flashing Fester”

The Washington Post’s Sempe Obit   From The Washington Post, August 27, 2022, from Brian Murphy, “Jean-Jacques Sempe, Whimsical Illustrator Of New Yorker Covers, Dies At 89”    __________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, August 22-26, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Mary Lawton, J.A.K., Felipe Galindo,

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Tuesday Spill: Happy 96th George Booth!; Washington Post Editorial Cartoonists Article Of Interest…With Liza Donnelly and Pia Guerra; Interview Of Interest…Sofia Warren

Happy 96th George Booth!   The Spill wishes the great New Yorker artist George Booth a very happy birthday. At 96, Mr. Booth is the magazine’s senior contributing artist.  photo: Liza Donnelly and Roz Chast celebrating with Mr. Booth today.   Mr. Booth’s latest New Yorker drawing is in the brand new issue, dated July 4, 2022. You can see it

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Weekend Spill: Emily Flake, Amy Hwang, & Chris Weyant Are National Cartoonist Society Awards Finalists; The Tilley Watch Online, May 23-27, 2022; From Attempted Bloggery…Steigs At Auction; More On Next Week’s New Yorker Cover

    Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan

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