The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: What, no cat in the window, ala Sempe? The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Tom Reese, who is the
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Here’s a link to the MoCCA Arts Fest 2022 website for even more info. Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978, Liza Donnelly in 1979, Maggie Larson in 2017, Barbara Smaller in 1996, and Bishakh Som in 2018. ____________________________________________________ 70 Years Ago In The New
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In One Issue Paging through a long ago issue of The New Yorker — the issue of January 21, 1956 to be exact — I was struck by the number of ads using the work of New Yorker cartoonists. There’s Peter Arno for The Pajama Game (the drawing appeared on the cover of Playbill and on the soundtrack album), and
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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