From The Spill’s Sports Desk: Chatfield’s Update Jason Chatfield (New Yorker cartoonist & New Yorker softball team member) has filed this update from the field: After a thrashing at the hands of Forbes in Riverside Park last week (15 to 1… oof!) The New Yorker Softball team had a victory in Central Park against longtime rivals The Paris Review last
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: bicycles The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a “Comic Strip”). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributor in the issue is
Read moreDaily Cartoons & Cartoonists Wednesday’s Daily Cartoon is by Asher Perlman, who began contributing to The New Yorker in June of this year. Tuesday’s Daily Cartoon: from Tom Chitty, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Visit his website here. Tuesday’s Bonus Cartoon: from Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit her website
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
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