An Abe Birnbaum Children’s Book I was browsing Ebay this morning when the below caught my eye: a 72 year old children’s book by one of my all-time favorite New Yorker cover artists, Abe Birnbaum. I’d never heard of it, never seen the cover before. Here are a few pages from the book. I just love Birnbaum’s style — the
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Auction Watch: Cartoons By Whitney Darrow, Jr., Gahan Wilson, Barney Tobey, and More Mike Lynch reports that Heritage Auctions has a number of original pieces of cartoon art going under the gavel. The offering includes New Yorker artists Whitney Darrow, Jr., Eldon Dedini, Larry Reynolds, Gahan Wilson, and Barney Tobey. See the pieces here. _______________________________________________________________ Now That’s A Cover! Here’s
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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 Cover Since there’s not a turkey in sight (or anything vaguely related to Thanksgiving) on this week’s cover, I’m showing you a favorite Thanksgiving cover (published in 1968), by the late and truly fabulous New Yorker cover
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As we’re in the second week of a double issue, there’s no new issue to look at. Darn. Instead, let’s take a look at an issue from this week, seventy-five years ago. Cover by Ilonka Karasz: As much as I like the cartoons in this issue, it’s the Spot drawings that really caught my eye. So here are just a
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