The New Yorker parody issue that I mentioned a few days ago has inspired me to single out the Thurber parody cartoons from some of the other issues shown in the piece (plus one not shown). I know there are more out there (anyone having one please forward to me). I didn’t include the tributes to Thurber by this cartoonist
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Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two
Read moreCartoonists Draw Cartoonist’s Cartoons According to what the Spill has pieced together from Instagram posts, Asher Perlman, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker this past June, asked a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists to draw “covers” of other New Yorker cartoonists work (it’s possible he assigned them a cartoonist…this is unclear!). Mr. Perlman’s cover of an Ellis Rosen
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: it’s the Fall Books Issue, with the theme of the issue hammered home with this (now familiar) modernized Eustace heading the Table of Contents. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists. The Spill counts duos as
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