The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: One moment you’re up, and the next you’re… The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, and also illustrates a (Steve Martin) Sketchpad; Ali Fitzgerald has a Sketchbook). One duo, that we know
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Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of
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An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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Podcast/Interview Of Interest: David Remnick Here’s an interesting interview from Magazeum, “A Conversation With Editor David Remnick” (you can either listen to it or read the transcript) with the magazine’s current editor, David Remnick. Somewhere around midway in the piece he discusses cartoons. Link here. ____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 3-7, 2024 An end of the week
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