“Our Dogs” Magazine With Thurber’s “Snapshot Of A Dog” A Thurber piece turned up in a magazine I never heard of until about ten minutes ago: Our Dogs: A Magazine for Dog Lovers. In their Spring 1953 issue, Elizabeth Taylor is the cover subject, and James Thurber gets a name-check. His short piece, “Snapshot of a Dog,” (a fond recollection
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“Drawing Life” With Liza Donnelly From The Norman Rockwell Museum, this news of an “online and on-demand program of sketching and conversation about creative expression, the power of persuasion, and illustration” with Liza Donnelly, a long-time New Yorker contributor (Ms. Donnelly first sold a drawing to the magazine in 1979). The event takes place on January 19, 2023.
Read moreInterview of Interest: Sophie Lucido Johnson From Inside Hook, January 10, 2023, “Sophie Lucido Johnson Writes (and Draws) About Parenting and Polyamory) Better Than Anyone” — a short interview with the writer/artist who began contributing (most often as part of a duo) to The New Yorker in 2020. –drawing (from the article): Sophie Lucido Johnson _______________________________________________________________ A Photo
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Martin Luther King The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (including this week’s Spot artist, Ed Steed as well as the Caption Contest cartoonists: Brian Hawes & Seth Roberts, Feggo (aka Felipe Galindo), and Michael Maslin. The
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