The Tilley Watch Online, December 15-19, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
Daily Cartoon: Anjali Chandrashekar, Liana Finck, Habiba Nabisubi, Brendan Loper, Dan Misdea
Sketchbook: “The Disruptors Behind Radiohead’s Art” by Zoe Si
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An Online Post & Photo Of Interest
As part of the magazine’s Happy Birthday to Tilley year, a decade-by-decade slideshow of cartoon highlights has been gathered online. See them here.
…And…
Here’s a fave photo that appeared online, but didn’t make it into the print magazine. It accompanies cartoon editor, Emma Allen’s terrif piece on Otto Soglow’s “Spot” drawings.
More Soglow
Here, from one of Ms. Allen’s predecessors, Lee Lorenz (from Mr. Lorenz’s Art of The New Yorker, 1925-1995), a little more on Soglow, and his Spot drawing work ethic:
“…in 1973 when I became art editor, Otto Soglow appeared in our outer office to prepare his weekly batch of drawings for the ‘Talk of the Town’ pages. The man who walked into my office that day approached his job not with wild abandon of the ecdysiast but with the quiet competence of a CPA. He arrived, hung up his hat, and sat down on a small worktable in the outer office. I handed him a folder of ‘Talk’ pieces, prepared by William Shawn’s office, and a list indicating which ones he should illustrate. Otto accepted this silently, seated himself at the worktable, put on his glasses, and began to read. After thirty minutes or so, he put aside the copy and began to sketch in pencil on illustration board. He never made preliminary sketches either for me or himself. After completing the pencil drawing, he carefully inked in the finishes with a pen he had brought with him. After the ink dried, he cleaned the drawings with a rubber eraser, placed them them in a folio along with the appropriate ‘Talk’ pieces, handed the folio back to me, put on his hat, shook my hand, and left. I don’t remember ever receiving a drawing that was unpublishable or required correction.”