Government Cheese’s Fake New Yorker Cover My New Yorker colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly recently noticed a New Yorker magazine shown for a second (maybe a second-and-a-half) in the very first episode of the Apple TV series, “Government Cheese.” I took a screenshot of the moment the magazine appears, turned the image upside down, and sharpened it a little. It’s
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40 Years Ago In The New Yorker 40 years doesn’t seem all that long ago, but as it concerns The New Yorker‘s cartoonists, it was an entirely different world then. Only two of the sixteen cartoonists in the issue of June 3, 1985 are still with us: Arnie Levin, who did the fab cover, and Mick Stevens. I can’t show
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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 Ten cartoons, twelve cartoonists (Roland High did the Spots, and Lonnie Millsap supplied the Caption Contest drawing). No duos, that we know of. One newbie, Natalie Horberg, who is the 4th addition to the magazine’s
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Not too many weeks ago I mentioned here that a long lost video of my conversation with the late great New Yorker art/cartoon editor, and New Yorker cartoonist, Lee Lorenz had been discovered. I’ve finally managed, with help from a tech-savvy family member, to share it. The conversation, which took place June 21, 2014, was part of The Westport (Connecticut)
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