A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine Dives Deep Into The Issue of February 8, 1936 You won’t be disappointed by this latest New Yorker State of Mind post. As usual, David O does a terrific job of covering and expanding on the contents (not just the cartoons, but the editorial mix,
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____________________________________________________________________ Here’s to the Olympic Winter Games! — From The New Yorker, December 5, 1983 (I wrote about the drawing here). __________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest…Toro and Perlman Something fun for those out Seattle way. Asher Perlman began contributing to The New Yorker in 2021; Tom Toro in 2010. Event info here! ___________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February
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Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc At The Athena Film Festival Liza Donnelly, a long time New Yorker contributor, co-directed (with Kathy Hughes) this short documentary film. From the Festival’s website: In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who
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I hopefully will forever be surprised by foreign edition Thurber covers. Google translated the below Czechoslovakian title to “The Philosopher and the Oyster” — one of the fables in Thurber’s 1956 Further Fables For Our Time. The cover drawing is definitely not an oyster, it’s supposed to be a toad…I suppose a toad could be philosophical. This book… is this
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