Exactly one year ago today I posted the A Sunday Puzzler piece below. This afternoon, while going through a newly arrived (but old) book, E.B. White: A Bibliography, by A.J. Anderson (The Scarecrow Press, 1978), I came across the answer to the puzzle, efficiently explained in one sentence by Mr. Anderson in his Introduction. Forget the very beginning about the
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A polar moment from John Cuneo’s unbelievably restless-pen. Link to a Q&A with him here. And be sure to check out his new book,Coping Skills: Helpful Drawings, out May 1st from Fantagraphics The Cartoonists: Eleven cartoons, eleven
Read moreIn this interview via Irish Stew, “Liza Donnelly: Visual Journalist, New Yorker Cartoonist,Speaker, Feminist”, the long-time New Yorker contributor talks about her career, the upcoming new edition of her classic book Funny Ladies, live-drawing, and so much more. Shown above right: a rough version of the Very Funny Ladies cover. The book will be out this November. Ms. Donnelly’s A-Z
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Something from the Spill’s Archive, originally published in December of 2013, expanded in 2016, with an additional passage added today. I have a fondness for Carl Rose’s New Yorker work: 543 cartoons and 4 covers in 46 years, from 1925 through 1971. The affection was compounded by reading his one and only collection, One Dozen Roses (Random House, 1946). This
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Birnbaum’s Sinatra In late 1946, The New Yorker ran a three part series on Frank Sinatra by E.J. Kahn, Jr.. The three parts became a book (a small book: 5″ x 7 1/2″), with each part of the series accompanied by a different illustration — and different illustrator.* Abe Birnbaum supplied Part Two’s illustration: I think it was the most
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