Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 3-7, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
Daily Cartoon: Lia Strasser, Lindsey Budde, Lynn Hsu, Ali Solomon, Guy Richards Smit. See them here.
Shouts & Murmurs: Ali Fitzgerald “America!: Gummies For Everything That Ails You”
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “The Ghosts Of Gracie Mansion Meet Mr. Mamdani”
Cartoon Highlights: 2016-2025…the final installment in the series spotlighting a number of cartoons published each decade since The New Yorker‘s debut in 1925.
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First And Last: Henry Martin
Another in a Spill series showing a New Yorker artist’s very first published cartoon in the magazine and their last. This time round we look at the late great Henry Martin‘s first and last. According to his daughter:
“He sold his first drawing — known as a “spot” (the small drawing inside a story) — to The New Yorker in April 1950, though it was another 14 years before he sold his first cartoon there.”
That first cartoon appeared in the issue of August 15, 1964:
And here’s his last New Yorker drawing, published January 11, 1999:
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Henry Martin’s A-Z Entry:
Henry Martin ( Pictured above. Photograph taken 1984) Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky. Died, June 30, 2020, Newtown, Pennsylvania. New Yorker work: 1964 – 1999. Collections: Good News / Bad News (Scribners, 1977), Yak! Yak! Yak! Blah! Blah! Blah! (Scribners, 1977). Martin has illustrated a number of books, as well as writing and illustrating children’s books.