Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of March 14, 2022; A Shermund Commentary On Hokinson?; David Sipress On Today’s “Fresh Air”

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: About the war. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). One newbie: Erika Sjule,* who is the 7th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this year, and the 107th newbie brought

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Weekend Spill: NYTs On Barbara Shermund “Overlooked No More”; Ward Sutton’s “Adams Family”; Peter Kuper Is The 2022 Herblock Prize Finalist; Book Review Of Interest: Hilary Campbell’s “Murder Book”; Video Of Interest: A Panel Discusses Booth Doc; The Tilley Watch Online: February 28 – March 4, 2022; Kendra Allenby “Turning Words Into Watercolors”

  The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund!  The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work.  The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in

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Tuesday Spill: New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel With Liza Donnelly, Amy Hwang, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, & Emma Allen; “New Yorker Luminaries” From Dick Buchanan’s Files; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

  New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel “Very Funny Ladies” With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, And Finck           It’s back! Amidst all the other panels and appearances this Fall there’s a virtual must-see panel for fans of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. “Very Funny Ladies” with Liza Donnelly (whose updated history of New Yorker women cartoonists, Very Funny

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