The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Barry Blitt on this unusual year’s Thanksgiving. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1994. See his cover and read a Q&A about it here. As you probably might imagine, Mr. Blitt’s image of an outdoors
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Early Richter I’ve always thought that the late Mischa Richter’s cartoon roots were heavily influenced by Peter Arno’s work (something he vehemently denied when I interviewed him in 1999).* This early Mischa Richter drawing currently on Ebay is interesting in that it seems to show a Steig influence. The fellow staring at the wall thermometer is right out of William
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Jason Chatfield Hosts! Fun news from Jason Chatfield who posted on social media a couple of days ago that he is hosting a show on the Food Network. Details here on his website. Mr. Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. ___________________________________________________________________ One Of These Is Not Like The Other If you Google New Yorker Cartoonists, a
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Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ali Solomon, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018, on a classic restriction. …And Yesterday‘s: Brooke Bourgeois, who began contributing to The New Yorker last year, on pandemic photos.
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