One of the Spill‘s favorite New Yorker-centric blogs takes a close look at the issue of August 31, 1929. Consider the blog’s subtitle for a moment: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker Magazine. If you love The New Yorker, you’ll love watching the magazine’s early development. And of course, there’s all that history. Read it here. Above: the Aug
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The Tilley Watch Online, the Week of August 13-17; Video of Interest: A BBC Portrait of Liza Donnelly; Blog of Interest: New Yorker State of Mind
The contributing New Yorker cartoonists* on this week’s Daily Cartoon: Jeremy Nguyen, Avi Steinberg, Lars Kenseth, and Jason Adam Katzenstein (3/4ths of the drawings in the realm of Trump). Contributing New Yorker cartoonists on this week’s Daily Shouts (team efforts all): Olivia de Recat (w/Chris Weller), Jeremy Nguyen (w/Chris Kozminski), and Jason Adam Katzenstein (w/Julia Edelman). *The Spill considers “contributing
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of July 30, 2018
The early release Barry Blitt Trump flat-on-his-face cover (above, right) was mentioned here last week, so onward we go to the brand new issue. Fifteen cartoons in the issue, eighteen illustrations. With five of those illustrations full page, I’d say the magazine is most definitely in a new age of illustration (the old age was during Tina Brown’s reign as
Read moreA Thursday Round-up: Fall Cartoonist Panel of Interest Includes Eckstein, Acocella, Borchart, and Weyant; New Yorker State of Mind’s Look at the Issue of June 8, 1929; Fawkes’ Bronte Book
Fall Cartoonist Panel of Interest Not too early to pencil this one in on your Fall calendar: Bob Eckstein, Marisa Acocella, David Borchart, and Chris Weyant will appear September 29th at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival. Here’s a piece about the festival. __________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State of Mind Goes deep into the New Yorker issue of June 8
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