Yesterday afternoon, a “funny” moment: I was going through a manila folder at the bottom of a box full of James Thurber-centric manila folders (all courtesy of Michael Rosen) when I came across this undated news clipping by James Thurber that began: “Just the other afternoon, I was going through an old manila envelope containing the odds and ends,
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A 42 Year Old Edward Koren Ad Booklet: “How To Approach A Wall” Yesterday, visiting a friend, he handed me this 1983 twelve page illustrated ad booklet from his archives (thanks my friend, for the donation!). Though the booklet’s been around forty-two years, it was brand new to me.The artist is the late very great Edward Koren. The client was
Read moreNow That’s A Cover! The late Barney Tobey’s work was highly visible in The New Yorker, contributing 1,040 cartoons over his 57 years at the magazine. But like so many of the magazine’s regulars, pre-Tina Brown, he also contributed covers — four to be exact. Below is his third. Barney Tobey’s A-Z: Barney Tobey (photo above from Think Small, a
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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 cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of, and one newbie: Enrico Pinto, who is the 5th cartoonist added to the magazine’s colosseum of cartoonists this year, and the 170th brought in since Emma
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