The Wednesday Tilley Watch: Interview Of Interest: Liana Finck; Cuneo At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Interview Of Interest: Liana Finck From Publishers Weekly, February 25, 2020, “Liana Finck on Pop-up Magazine and Taking Her Cartoons To the Stage” Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here.   _____________________________________________________________ John Cuneo At The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium A crowded room last night at the New School for John

Read more

The Monday Tilley Watch: Rea Irvin & Fillmore Hyde’s The Ritz Carltons; Carol Isaacs’s “Wolf Of Baghdad” World Premiere

Last week’s 95th anniversary issue was a double issue, dated February 17 & 24, as you see below. So  (sigh) no new cartoons to discuss until next Monday. In the meantime here’s a rarity courtesy of Spill friend, the author, Steve Stoliar.  He recently acquired a copy of The Ritz Carltons, published in 1927, authored by Fillmore Hyde, with illustrations

Read more

Mr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago; Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks; The Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf of Baghdad” Out Next Week; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Mr. Peanut Shelled 20 Years Ago Apparently, I was, unusually, way ahead of a developing story.  Here’s a drawing of mine published by The New Yorker in 2000 (it was within a double issue: Dec. 25, 2000/January 1, 2001). _______________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks From Chicago Magazine, January 22, 2020, “The Weird, Whimsical World Of Rich Sparks” — this

Read more

Radio Piece Of Interest: Dave Coverly; Surreal McCoy’s Wolf Of Baghdad Soundtrack Now 98% Funded; Cover Revealed For Next Marx/Chast Book; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts

Radio Piece Of Interest: Dave Coverly From  WEMU.org, July 2, 2019, “Creative:Impact — Ann Arbor Man Creates Thought-Provoking Laughter Through Cartoon Panel” — that Ann Arbor man is Dave Coverly, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here.  Above: a Coverly drawing published in The New Yorker, April 23, 2007 __________________________________________________________________________ Surreal McCoy’s Wolf Of

Read more