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Cartoon Companion Goes On Hiatus; More Price, Close Up; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Brooke Bourgeois

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The Cartoon Companion  fellows, Max and Phil (and now revealed as Rex Hesner, and the cartoonist, Phil Witte), have announced they are moving on to another pasture. The Spill wishes them well as they delve ever deeper into this peculiar art form.  Read about the move here.  

The departure of Cartoon Companion leaves the internet devoid of a site devoted to critical commentary about the New Yorker‘s cartoons. I hope another pops up sooner than later.

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More Price, Close Up

Attempted Bloggery continues George Pricemania with another up close look at a Price original published in The New Yorker in the issue of September 4, 1989.  See it here.

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Today’s Daily Cartoon

Today’s Daily cartoon, taxes & Trump &…, is by Brooke Bourgeois. This is Ms. Bourgeois’s second Daily appearance. Link here to her website.

 

 

Close-Up Of A George Price Original; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Mary Lawton

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Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at a George Price original drawing.

Here’s his entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:

George Price (above) Born in Coytesville, New Jersey, June 9, 1901. Died January 12, 1995, Engelwood, New Jersey. New Yorker work: 1929 – 1991. Lee Lorenz, the New Yorker’s former Art/Cartoon editor, called Price one of the magazine’s great stylists (along with Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, James Thurber, and William Steig. Of the many Price collections here are two favorites:  Browse At Your Own Risk (1977), and The World of George Price: A 55-Year Retrospective (1988)

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The Daily Cartoon

Today’s Daily cartoon, about the ever growing field of democratic candidates, is by Mary Lawton.  Ms. Lawton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.

 

 

The Wednesday Tilley Watch… Article Of Interest: Gahan Wilson; Meet Tom Chitty; Liza Donnelly At SXSW; Short-Listed For The Cartoonist Studio Prize: Summer Pierre, Liana Finck, Tom Tomorrow, Hartley Lin, and Gabrielle Bell; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ellis Rosen

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Article Of Interest: Gahan Wilson

From the Sag Harbor Express, March 12, 2019, “A Call For Help For A World-Famous Cartoonist, Formerly Of Sag Harbor” — a good article about the ailing New Yorker cartoonist and the GoFundMe campaign underway to help him.

(photo: Mr. Wilson and his late wife, Nancy, with a Gahan Wilson character between them, 1970)

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Meet Tom Chitty

From Playjunkie, March 12,2019, “Meet Cartoonist Tom Chitty And his Humorous Work”  — a short piece with examples of Mr. Chitty’s drawings.

Mr. Chitty began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Link here to his website

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Liza Donnelly At SXSW

Liza Donnelly spoke and live-drew at SXSW last week.  Here’s an article from interrobang mentioning her appearance.

Ms. Donnelly began contributing to The New Yorker in 1982.  Link here to her website.

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Pete Holmes Crashing Ends

From Vulture, March 8, 2019, “Pete Holmes Crashing Shall Crash On HBO No More”.

Mr. Holmes began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006.  Link here to his website.

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Short-Listed For The Cartoonist Studio Prize: Summer Pierre, Liana Finck, Hartley Lin, Tom Tomorrow, and Gabrielle Bell

From Slate, March 11, 2019,   “The Cartoonist Studio Prize: The Short List”

Among those short-listed are these New Yorker contributors (their New Yorker debut years are listed beside their names):

Summer Pierre (2018).

Liana Finck (2013).

 Hartley Lin (2019).

Tom Tomorrow (1999).

Gabrielle Bell (2017).

Congrats to all!

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Today’s Daily

 Today’s Daily cartoon, by Ellis Rosen, is related to the higher education cheatin’ scandal.  Mr. Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Link here to his website.

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Pierre’s piece appeared on newyorker.com in December of 2018. Her website.

 

 

 

Playful Pages; Early Gahan Wilson Art; Yesterday’s and Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoon

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Playful Pages

On many a Monday Tilley Watch I mention placement of art. Usually I’m talking about how large a drawing appears on the page, and where it sits. I’m fairly certain I’ve also mentioned how the art once played across the pages of The New Yorker, creatively interacting with text.  While randomly (electronically) flipping through elder issues of The New Yorker this morning I happened upon some examples.  The first one (by Al Frueh) is especially striking:

Below: Julian de Miskey, February 6, 1926.

Below: JTI, November 6, 1926.

Below: unsigned, November 24, 1928

Below: Leonard Dove, on the left and Rea Irvin on the right, November 24, 1928.

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Early Gahan Wilson

If you head over to Mike Lynch’s blog you’ll see, courtesy of Dick Buchanan, a great selection of early Gahan Wilson art.  And be sure to link to the Gahan Wilson GoFundMe campaign that’s in progress.  Mr. Wilson, one of the New Yorker cartoon gods,  is suffering from severe dementia. 

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Today’s Daily

Yesterday’s Daily cartoon was a duo effort: Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley.  Today’s cartoon is by Emily Flake.

Jason Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, Emily Flake in 2008.

The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker March 18, 2019

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The Cover: This is Malika Favre’s seventh cover for The New Yorker (according to the Contributors info on page 4). An exceptionally decorative cover for “The Style Issue”… Read more here. 

The Cartoonists:

The Cartoons:

A very Charles Addamsy David Sipress drawing this week (that’s a compliment, of course).

Cartoon placement on the page has been mentioned here numerous times: happy to say that seven (i.e., half) of the  cartoons in the issue were given breathing room. They look great.

Tom Cheney’s Hell’s Auditors cartoon especially caught my eye (it’s on page 29). I believe that this is the fourth time New Yorker cartoonists have specifically word-played with the Hell’s Angels “colors.” Jack Ziegler had two, this beauty, published in The New Yorker, February 27, 1989:

And an earlier one, published in The New Yorker, December 17, 1984:

And then there was this one by yours truly in the December 25th, 1995 issue of The New Yorker:

A quick search of The New Yorker‘s database shows over a hundred of its cartoons have incorporated a motorcycle.  Sometimes the bike and biker are bit players, and other times they’re the focus of the drawing.  An awful lot of the cartoons concern folks getting speeding tickets from a motorcycle cop (and many of them show the cop in-wait behind a billboard). 

There are a small number of cartoons with motorcyclists wearing colors, but the usage doesn’t include mention of the Hell’s Angels. Ed Arno’s motorcycle gang wearing jackets that read “Inflation Fighters” (published April 2, 1979) is one example. 

To return to the great Jack Ziegler for a moment, he used the Hell’s Angels colors once again, but left their name intact in this fabulous drawing published in The New Yorker, November 13, 2000:

A long long way from the subject of Hell’s Angels, for those interested in trivia: the first mention of a motorcycle cartoon in the New Yorker‘s database is Al Frueh’s cartoon in the February 13, 1926 issue.  The  second cartoon with a motorcycle in the picture was published December 7, 1929.  It set off a bit of a in-house squabble, but that’s a story for another time (the artist was Peter Arno).

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Lastly, still no sight of Rea Irvin’s classic Talk masthead. Read about it here, and see it below: