Jason Chatfield’s Sports Report Mr. Chatfield’s final report of the season (via The New Yorker team captain, Zach Helfland): “Vanity Fair only had a few people, so we split up the teams and just played an intra-New Yorker scrimmage: New vs. Yorker.” Visit Jason Chatfield’s website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Julia suits, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006
Read moreLachen Mit Thurber I enjoy looking through foreign titles of Thurber books, especially when the cover art and title are unfamiliar, and, as in this case, nicely done. Google translate tells me that the title in English is Laugh With Thurber: 75 Selected Stories And Fables by James Thurber. This edition was published in 1965. Without ordering a copy (it can
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The Faux Commandment: “Thou Shall Submit 10 Cartoons A Week” The New Yorker’s cartoon department has never had its own Ten Commandments, let alone One Commandment — that’s one of the cornerstones, if not the cornerstone of its success. For the entirety of the magazine’s history, right up through today, the number of drawings the magazine’s contributing cartoonists submit each
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Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original From Attempted Bloggery, July 22, 2022, “Charles Addams: Wednesday’s Grades” — a report on the recent Sotheby’s auction of an original Addams Family drawing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go cheap. ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, July 18-22, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work
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