Friday Spill: New Book…Tom Chitty’s “Nooks & Crannies Of New York”; Now That’s A Cover!…Ilonka Karasz

New Book! News of “the first originally published book by American Bystander“ From The American Bystander: Nooks and Crannies of New York: From the Chronicles of Baron von Shoogenheimer is a new book by cartoonist Tom Chitty. It’s assembled from the quaint observations, dire warnings, private enthusiasms, and highly selective urban knowledge of the Edwardian era’s greatest unknown traveler, Baron Eugene von

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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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