A Bonus Daily Cartoon From John Cuneo. A second wave drawing from one of the magazine’s best cover artists. See it here. Mr. Cuneo’s first New Yorker drawing was published in May of 2019, but he’s been contributing covers for close to a decade. Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: Patrick McKelvie on forever dishes. Mr. McKelvie’s first New Yorker drawing
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The Monday Spill: The New Yorker Cartoonists Glossary (Updated)
No Monday Tilley Watch today as we’re in the second half of a double issue stretch (the latest issue is dated July 6 & 13, 2020). The next new issue, dated July 20, 2020 will be out next Monday). Just for fun, I thought I’d dust-off and update the Glossary I compiled some years back for a newyorker.com feature. The
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: A 1934 July 4th Moment By Steig; Bliss’s American Bystander Cover; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 29th-July 3rd, 2020; More Spills: Eckstein’s Beast Piece, A Hoff Mural, and More Henry Martin
William Steig’s 1934 New Yorker cover celebrating the 4th of July seems to capture the mood of this particular 4th when we have been urged to stay at home, away from gatherings. It was, of course, published during another deeply troubled time in our history. Here’s William Steig’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: William Steig Born in Brooklyn, NY, Nov.
Read moreMust See! An Exhibit Of Liza Donnelly’s Work At The Norman Rockwell Museum
Above: the original drawing of a Donnelly cartoon in the The New Yorker issue of April 20, 2020 Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the magazine in 1982, will have her first-ever solo exhibit this month at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. There’ll be a virtual opening, via the museum’s Youtube channel on Friday
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