The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 15-19, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson (twice in the week), Brendan Loper, Christopher Weyant. Shouts & Murmurs: Will Santino (with David Machajewski). Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump On Trial: The Defense Rests”
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Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Cream Of Thurber I put off acquiring the 1939 UK collection, The Cream Of Thurber for many years, but finally caved last week when thinking about the paperback edition, published in 1948; the simplicity of the cover design was (suddenly!) appealing.
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Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists.
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