The Cover: It is always a treat to see a fellow cartoonist have a cover. This week is one of those weeks. Ed Steed returns with his fourth cover (he also did this week’s Spot drawings). Read art editor Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with him here. On first sight his cover recalled (minus all the flowers and whatevers) a cover by
Read more______________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online An end of week listing of artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features. The Daily Cartoon: Yasin Osman (an online contributor), David Sipress, Victor Varnado, Amy Hwang, Tim Hamilton. Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook ___________________________________________________________________ A Little Grouping I realized this morning that this little grouping of framed & unframed cartoons resting on our
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Video Of Interest: “Very Funny Ladies: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker,” the recent panel streamed live via The Norman Rockwell Museum has now been posted on YouTube. The participating New Yorker contributors: Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly (whose work is currently on exhibit at the museum), Emily Sanders Hopkins, Sara Lautman, and Victoria Roberts. ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Yasin
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A (Very) Brief Thurber Blurb A long road to go to see a very short blurb, but I took it. While hunting around the web for Alan Dunn’s cover for Joel Sayre‘s Rackety Rax (1932), I spotted a reference to a James Thurber blurb for Sayre’s 1933 follow-up, Hizzoner The Mayor (also with a Dunn cover). Thinking I’d find a
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