Online Event Of Interest With Bishakh Som Bishakh Som, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2018 will be speaking this Thursday in an online event hosted by the Heong Gallery. All the info here. From the event text re: Apsara Engine and Spellbound: Apsara Engine won the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel as well as the
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Pub Day For Send Help! And Murder Book Two goodies out today: Send Help!* a collection of desert island cartoons edited by New Yorker cartoonists Ellis Rosen and Jon Adams And from New Yorker cartoonist, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Murder Book. Info on Send Help! here *full disclosure: several of my drawings appear in this collection. Info on Murder Book here.
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Bruce McCall downsizes the Chrysler Building. Here’s a link to a brief Q&A with the artist (bonus: within this Q&A there’s a link to his current exhibit of work at The New York Historical Society). The Issue:
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From a great little catalog for a 1943 exhibit, “Meet The Artist,” at San Francisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, here’s a Thurber self portrait and bio, with the intriguing first sentence: “My life story is simple.” The exhibit also included the following New Yorker artists: Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Alan Dunn, William Gropper, Rea Irvin, Roberta Macdonald,
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