A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here!
Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz
Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New York, May 26, 1981. New Yorker work: Ms. Karasz was a prolific New Yorker cover artist, with 185 published. Her first appeared on the issue of April 4, 1925; her last appeared on the issue of October 22, 1973. Her Wikipedia entry
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The Tilley Watch Online, September 29 – October 2, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
Brendan Loper, Elisabeth McNair, Tyson Cole, Chris Gural, Jon Adams. See them here.
Shouts & Murmurs: Olivia de Recat, Will McPhail.
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump Has Seen The Enemy”
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New Yorker Baseball Cartoons
There’s a lot — a whole lot — of baseball happening these next few weeks. If you’d like a goodly dose of New Yorker baseball cartoons, look no further than this 2003 collection put together by Michael Crawford (a revised edition was published in 2012). The cover artist for the original edition was Michael Witte; the later edition*used a Leo Cullum cartoon on the cover.
*I was pleased that one of my two New Yorker baseball drawings (so far!…there’s another waiting to be published) made it into the later edition. The Yankee Stadium drawing was published in the issue of June 15, 1987.
If I had to pick an all-time fave New Yorker baseball cartoon, it would likely be this (still timely) one by Peter Arno, published in the issue of May 10, 1947.
The 5/10/1947 Arno drawing is also one of my favorites. I have been puzzled for years as to why it is not better known. I am glad to join your fan club for this brilliant drawing.
Dan Borinsky