Weekend Spill: Happy 95th, Ed Frascino!; The Tilley Watch Online, November 10-14, 2025; More Spills…Tina Brown…”Arno’s “Mind The Omnibus”/”Watch The Omnibus”

Happy 95th, Ed Frascino! Wishing the terrific New Yorker artist, Ed Frascino a very very happy birthday.   He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965 (his debut cartoon appeared in the issue of September 4th). Read the Spill’s November 2020 interview with him here.  Below: A Frascino New Yorker drawing, published November 21 1988     _________________________________________________________________________ The

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More Gahan Wilson; A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom Vault; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Humor Mag Of Interest: American Bystander #12; Today’s Daily Shouts…By Amy Kurzweil; Preview Of Interest on Salon: Shannon Wheeler’s “Mueller Report”

More Gahan Wilson From 27East.com, October 24, 2019, “Cartoonist Gahan Wilson Is Looking To Find His Way”  — this piece by Annette Hinkle on one of the modern masters of the form. …and this Chicago Sun-Times column from Neil Steinberg, October 24, 2019, “‘Lucky to be alive’ — morbid cartoonist faces dementia” _________________________________________________________ A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom

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Peter Arno Bio Excerpted on Newyorker.com

                If you haven’t gotten around to thumbing through a copy of Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist, the New Yorker‘s website has posted an excerpt along with two slideshows: one of Arno’s Whoops Sisters and a second spanning Arno’s (non-Whoops Sisters) work for the magazine . 

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