The Tilley Watch Online, April 14-18, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Dan Misdea, Ivan Ehlers, Adam Douglas Thompson, Tom Toro, Ali Solomon. Daily Cartoon Slideshow Cartoon Highlights 1956-1965 _________________________________________________________________ Personal History: Revisiting Crumb The publication this week of Dan Nadel’s Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,
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Francoise Mouly On The Passing Of Aline Kominsky-Crumb When I saw the sad news of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s passing the other day, I got up from my work table and walked a few steps to a bookshelf that holds the small number of “underground” comics I’ve managed to hold onto since the mid 1970s. I knew that I wouldn’t have
Read moreJanis Joplin’s Thurber From the Dept Of I Didn’t See This Coming: Reading through Dwight Garner’s New York Times review of the new Janis Joplin biography, “Janis,” by Holly George- Warren: “She named a dog Thurber, after James Thurber, the New Yorker humor writer.” — left: Thurber and Ms. Joplin ___________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon From Barbara Smaller,
Read moreThe Cover: It’s the Style Issue this week….thus the bountiful polka dots on Malika Favre’s eighth cover for the magazine. A Q&A with the artist here. If you link to the Q&A you’ll see the polka dot dress swirl. I can’t see that many polka dots (and red) on the cover without thinking of Peter Arno’s March 23, 1935 New
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