A Spill Easter Tradition: here at the Spill, Easter Sunday is an occasion to dust off and post a decades-ago rejected cover of mine (rejected by The New Yorker that is). My memory is that I was in a Charles Addams-y kind of mood when I did this.
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Zelio Alves Pinto Added To The A-Z, And To The One Club
Looking through a newly acquired bound volume of New Yorkers this afternoon I came across a cartoonist in the issue of January 28, 1985 I wasn’t familiar with: Zelio Alves Pinto. I believe this was Mr. Pinto’s first and only appearance in The New Yorker *(his name doesn’t pop up in The New Yorker database, explaining why I missed him some years back when I was trying to account for every cartoonist). According to his Wiki entry Mr. Pinto was born in 1938, in Brazil.
*Assuming that is correct, Mr. Pinto becomes the 137th member of the Spill‘s “One Club” — a designation bestowed upon cartoonists whose work appeared just once in The New Yorker during their career. 20 years is allowed to elapse following the one appearance before the One Club icon (shown here) is added to the artist’s A-Z entry.
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In Conversation (Video): Roz Chast & Liana Finck
A fifty-five seconds short of an hour video conversation with Roz Chast (on the right) and Liana Finck courtesy of Powell’s Books. See it here.
Roz Chast has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1978. Visit her website here.
Liana Finck has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2013. Visit her website here.
— photo: screen grab from the event
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The Tilley Watch Online, April 11- 15, 2022
An end of week listing of New Yorker artists whose work appeared on newyorker.com features
Daily Cartoon: Avi Steinberg, Matt Reuter,* Ali Solomon, Theora Kvitka,* Brooke Bourgeois.
*cartoonists whose drawings, to date, have appeared solely online, not in the print magazine.
Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat.
…and the weekly Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Baseball Scrapbook, Part 2”