Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, October 27 – October 31, 2025; Product Watch…An “Anniversary Box”

The Tilley Watch Online, October 27 – October 31, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Anjali Chandrashekar, (duo ) Ellis Rosen and Tom Chitty, Polly Adams, Ali Solomon, Hartley Lin, Adam Douglas Thompson.   _________________________________________________________________ An “Anniversary Box” It’s not often I Spill New Yorker product,

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Weekend Spill: Video Of Interest…Frank Cotham; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024; Ads Using Cartoons In A 1948 Issue Of The New Yorker

Video Of Interest: Frank Cotham               From WKNO -TV,  “A Conversation With Frank Cotham.” Mr. Cotham’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of  December 13, 1993 (read a Spill piece about the 20th anniversary of that debut here). ____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024 An end of the

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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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