The Weekend Spill: A Booth Exhibit; New Blitt’s Kvetchbook Entry; Events Of Interest With Liana Finck; The Tilley Watch Online For August 19-23, 2019

A Booth Exhibit There’s a brand new George Booth exhibit up and running at Gallery North out on Long Island. All the info here. George Booth’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: George Booth (photo taken in NYC 2016, courtesy of Liza Donnelly) Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; McPhail’s Graphic Novel; Liza Donnelly Illustrates A Carole King Announcement

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Teresa Burns Parkhurst (a New Yorker cartoonist since 2017) on Pets and 4th Of July Booms.  ______________________________________________________________________________ Will McPhail’s Graphic Novel From The Bookseller, July 3, 2019, “Sceptre Wins Three-Publisher Auction For New Yorker Cartoonist’s Debut” — Will McPhail (shown above)  has been signed to deliver a graphic novel in 2021. Read about it here.

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Two Peacocks Walk Into A Room; Rare Book Of Interest: A John M. Price Cartoon Anthology: Sara Lautman’s Daily Shouts; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Avi Steinberg

In one of those million-to-one cartoon moments, both my colleague Harry Bliss (with his collaborator Steve Martin) and I have similar drawings out this week (his in his syndicated daily spot, and mine in The New Yorker). What’s unusual, besides the timing of publication, and the peacock standing in a doorway in both drawings, is the use of the peacock

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