Article Of Interest: John Cuneo; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon; Fave Photo Of The Day: Emma Allen & Mort Gerberg; Article Of Interest: Will McPhail; New Yorker Cover Artist Jenny Kroik’s Tools Of The Trade On Case For Pencils

From Hudson Valley One, January 31, 2019, “Woodstocker captures the President for New Yorker covers and more” — this article on New Yorker cover artist, John Cuneo. . Today’s New Yorker Daily cartoon, featuring a political Frankenstein, is by David Sipress. See it here. Mr. Sipress began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1998 ________________________________________ Fave Photo Of

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Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon; Attempted Bloggery: A Thurber Spot Drawing; Reminder: Mort Gerberg & Emma Allen Event Tonight

Today’s Daily cartoon — a heavy nod to radiator sounds, is by Lila Ash. See it here. Ms. Ash’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of December 10, 2018. Link here to her website. _______________________________ Attempted Bloggery: A Thurber Spot Today’s Attempted Bloggery post showing us a lovely Thurber spot drawing from the May 15, 1954 New Yorker.

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Article Of Interest: Paul Karasik; Event Of Interest: Steve Brodner In Conversation With Joe Ciardiello at The Society Of Illustrators; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon

From The Vineyard Gazette, January 29, 2019, “A Brief Sketch of Life As a Cartoon Artist” — the cartoon artist is Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. _______________________________________ The Society of Illustrators will host a conversation with two exceptional illustrators (both of them have contributed to The New Yorker), Steve Brodner and Joe Ciardiello. The

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The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of February 4, 2019

The Cover: Vegetation abounds. Here’s what the artist,Tom Gauld had to say about it. The Cartoonists in the new issue: The Magazine: Whenever February comes around, I begin thinking about the upcoming anniversary issue of The New Yorker, a favorite child here on this site (Spill visitors might remember this Tilley-centric piece I wrote for newyorker.com a few years back). Seeing

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