Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 13-17, 2026; Avi Steinberg Guests On The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Launch…Cerise Zelenetz; Spotlight On A Spot

The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 13-17, 2026

An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who have contributed to newyorker.com features

Daily Cartoon: Brook Bourgeois (Bonus Daily), Brendan Loper, Ali Solomon (Bonus Daily), Adam Douglas Thompson, Matt Reuter, the duo of Sophie Lucido Johnson & Sammi Skolmoski, Eugenia Viti.

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Avi Steinberg Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Avi Steinberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2012, returns to the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast this week. This is episode #258, for those keeping track.

Photo: clockwise from upper left…co-host, Beth Lawler, co-host Paul Nesja, Avi Steinberg, and co-host Nicole Chrolavicius.

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Book Launch: Cerise Zelenetz’s Why Not Waltz To Your Alarm Clock?

Cerise Zelenetz, one of the newest New Yorker cartoonist newbies (her work first appeared in the magazine March 2, 2026), celebrates her new book July 22 in Brooklyn.

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Spotlight On A Spot

It dawned on me this morning that so many of the hundreds (thousands?) of New Yorker spot drawings I come across are too good not to throw the spotlight their way every so often. So here’s the first of a brand new Spill feature.

This wonderful spot drawing, by Barbara Shermund, appeared in the issue of May 7, 1932.

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Barbara Shermund’s A-Z Entry

Barbara Shermund (self portrait shown here) Born, San Francisco. 1899. Studied at The California School of Fine Arts. Died, 1978, New Jersey. New Yorker work: June 13, 1925 thru September 16, 1944. 8 covers and 599 cartoons. Shermund’s post-New Yorker work was featured in Esquire. (for more on Shermund’s life and work, See Liza Donnelly’s book, “Funny Ladies” — a history of The New Yorker’s women cartoonists — and Caitlin McGurk’s Shermund biography, “Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins”)