TV Jibes Via Attempted Bloggery What — you never heard of TV Jibes? Me neither…until yesterday when I saw the entire issue posted on Attempted Bloggery (with scans via Tom Bloom). A special insert included with TV Guide, it featured a dose of non- New Yorker cartoonists (some a mystery, ID-wise), and a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists including, among
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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: Barry Blitt on this unusual year’s Thanksgiving. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1994. See his cover and read a Q&A about it here. As you probably might imagine, Mr. Blitt’s image of an outdoors
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Fall Covers: Despite the pandemic, mother nature continues on doing her thing. There’s something reassuring about that (some of the best New Yorker covers have appeared this time of year). Back in 1984 the magazine’s seasonal covers inspired a gallery show and an accompanying book, Seasons At The New Yorker. Besides J.C. Suares’s September 23, 1974 cover that appears on
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Note to Readers: Ink Spill was down nearly all of yesterday due to who knows what (that’s as technical as I get). Sorry about that. The Monday Tilley Watch is off this week as we’re in the second week of a double issue (August 3 & 10, 2020). Just for fun I thought I’d take a quick look at the
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