Video Of Interest…Liza Donnelly On “The D-Word” Long-time New Yorker cartoonist (and now film director), Liza Donnelly appears on The D-Word, “the leading community for documentary professionals worldwide” to discuss her documentary film, Women Laughing. See it here ____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On An Eldon Dedini Original A Spill fave site, Attempted Bloggery looks at New Yorker original art
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The Issue of January 4, 1936 How lucky we are to have this site, spotlighting, issue-by-issue, long-ago issues of The New Yorker. Read this week’s deep dive here. Cover by Alajalov. His A-Z Entry: Constantin Alajalov Born Constantin Aladjalov, 1900, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. Died Oct., 1987, Amenia, New York.
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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 Seventeen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, and there’s a “Sketchbook” by the late very great Jack Ziegler). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Debora Szpilman, the first new addition to the
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Now That’s a Cover! On this dreary January day here in the northeast, with a grey sky, and snow lingering at the edges of streets, I thought we could use a bit of blue. Here’s a fun cover from Leonard Dove. I love the simplicity of it, as well as Dove’s use of the magazine’s edge where we see the
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