The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: woof Thought we might see an April Fool’s cover this week. But no. So here’s one by the late great William Steig: And now back to the present issue… The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Book On The Horizon…Asher Perlman’s Well, This Is Me Coming from Andrews & McMeel in June of 2024, Asher Perlman’s debut cartoon collection, Well, This is Me. From the publisher: “A blend of Asher’s classics and never-before-seen material, this collection gives the people what they want:
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