The Tilley Watch Online, August 8 – 12, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Zoe Si, Adam Douglas Thompson, Lila Ash, Dan Misdea, Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley) Daily Shouts: J.A.K. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Donald Trump Is A Stand- Up Guy”
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Saddened to learn of the passing of the great J.J. Sempe, who began contributing drawings and covers (mostly covers) to The New Yorker in 1978. Here’s a link to his New York Times obit. Mr. Sempe’s work was introduced to The New Yorker’s then art editor Lee Lorenz via Edward Koren. Mr. Sempe’s New Yorker covers often featured a small
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I don’t remember when and where I bought every book in the Spill‘s library. But I do remember where I bought the two-fer shown here: My Life and Hard Times & The Owl In The Attic. Thurber’s UK publisher, Hamish Hamilton put it out in 1950. I actually thought of this book on the trip north yesterday to visit Edward
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A Studio Visit It’s taken way too long to get up to Vermont to visit Edward Koren in his studio. Yesterday my New Yorker colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I took a drive to mid-Vermont to do just that. On the way north I thought about some of my colleague’s studios I’ve visited over the years: Jack Ziegler’s, Mick
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