The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A doggie in the window cover, via artist Diana Ejaita. Read a short Q&A with her here. I’m not sure why, exactly, but this later cover made me think of another cover, from long long ago, by
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Updike’s Thurber
Above: John Updike’s Thurber dog drawing, courtesy of Miranda Updike What can I say: I love intersections (I even live at one). Not long ago I wrote about my leaving Manhattan to live on a dairy farm in a sleepy town on the edge of the Catskills. It turned out the town once was home of Dr. Fitz Foord’s sanitorium,
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The Ink Spill Interview: Edward Frascino
Above: Edward Frascino With Aristide Maillol’s “The Mediteranean” at The Museum Of Modern Art, about 1955. Photo courtesy of Mr. Frascino When I joined The New Yorker’s stable of cartoonists in the late 1970s there were perhaps two dozen regulars whose work anchored the magazine’s art. The strength of the stable was, as you would expect, superior cartoonery
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The Wednesday Spill: Wow, What A Cover!; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Wow! What A Cover On one of my daily Ebay hunts for bound volumes of New Yorkers, the photo above got my attention. From a volume containing June 11th — September 10, 1960 issues, the seller chose to showcase the Arthur Getz cover shown here. Mr. Getz holds the record as most prolific New Yorker cover artist of all time
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