Yet another previously-unknown-to-me Thurber cover popped up on social media yesterday. Google translate helpfully informed me that Malos tiempos means “bad times” or possibly “hard times” or “evil times.” Out of all those choices I had a pretty good idea that this was a Spanish edition of My Life and Hard Times. Happily, Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography
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“And We Won’t Aim To Please” In this year of celebrating The New Yorker‘s centennial I think it’s a good idea, every so often, to go way way back to the very beginnings of the magazine. As incredible as it may seem, the below appeared in the second issue of The New Yorker, dated February 28, 1925 (in the column,
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New Yorker Cover & Spot Artist Judith Shahn Website & Exhibit Here’s a link to Lisa Mecham’s brand new Judith Shahn site, Finding Judy, described as: ” a digital archive project devoted to celebrating the life and work of Judith Shahn—a prolific, yet often overlooked American artist of the 20th century.” Ms. Shahn had one New Yorker cover, and buckets-full
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Sixteen cartoonists, sixteen cartoons. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. Cover artist, Marcellus Hall, has Spots. The longest active contributing cartoonist is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing was published July 3, 1978.
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