The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: the ties that bind. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Tim Sniffen, who is the 7th addition to the cartoonist stadium this year
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Early Release New Yorker Cover We haven’t seen an early release New Yorker cover for awhile. Here’s next week’s, with Barry Blitt art. Read a little more here. ______________________________________________________________
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Never Enough Steinberg And Sempe The pile of books above is within my line of sight from where I work. I realized today that the books almost arranged themselves this way. As each new Steinberg and Sempe title
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In my current re-reading of Harrison Kinney’s massive (1,238 pages) Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times, I came across a short section devoted to Thurber’s opining, in a letter, on several cartoons in a particular issue of The New Yorker. Each time I had gone over this section in the past I wondered what issue Thurber was talking about.
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