Three Book Ads
Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about Mr. Steig. The Thurber Letters book has always been a favorite (a later collection, The Thurber Letters, edited by Harrison Kinney, and Rosemary Thurber is just as wonderful). The Katharine White collection took me by surprise back when it was published; I wasn’t paying attention to articles on the subject. However, I found the book a pleasure to read.
*The Steig / Katharine White ads ran in the December 3, 1979 New Yorker.
The Thurber Letters as ran in the issue of November 30, 1981.
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Chatfield Celebrates Ginger Meggs 100th Birthday
Jason Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, and has been drawing the Ginger Meggs strip since 2007, is celebrating the strip’s 100th birthday. Here’s a video produced as part of the festivities.
Visit Mr. Chatfield’s website here.
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 8-12, 2021
An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, J.A.K., Kim Warp, Jon Adams, Sarah Kempa.
Daily Shouts: J.A.K.(with Noel Wells).
…and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Ted Cruz Gets To Sesame Street”
Kudos to Barry Blitt – great caricature of a child in beard and suit and tie who calls himself a Senator.