Above is the early-released cover of next week’s issue of The New Yorker by Kadir Nelson. Go here to see what the magazine calls “a closeup examination…of the cover” ________________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online An end of week list of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features. June 8-12, 2020: The Daily Cartoon: Victor Varnado, Maddie Dai, Tim Hamilton,
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The Wednesday Watch: Al Frueh’s Stage Folk; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Al Frueh’s Stage Folk Here’s a true oddity, and an expensive one at that: Al Frueh’s Stage Folk: A Book of Caricatures, published in 1922. A copy went for a little over a thousand bucks when sold by Hakes Auction in 2010. I know what some of you might think: The New Yorker didn’t begin publishing until 1925, so why
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: New Yorker-Centric Books Stepping Up; Article Of Interest: “Behind The Covers”; The Online Tilley Watch, June 1-5, 2020
New Yorker-Centric Books Stepping Up Here at Spill headquarters we ran out of bookshelf space quite awhile ago; even the places to “temporarily” place them have become crowded. A few weeks ago, a few old favorites and new favorites — all New Yorker-centric (but one) — began being placed at the bottom step of our thirteen hallway steps. Then a
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Two Steinberg Videos Of Interest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
________________________________________________________________________ Two Steinberg Videos Of Interest Incontro con Saul Steinberg in Italian (with Steinberg’s voice dubbed). Screen grab above from this video. Fun to watch even if you don’t speak the language. And… Steinberg: Outsider Extraordinaire…a National Gallery of Art lecture. Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker
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