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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Two Podcasts Of Interest Alex Gregory, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999 (and who, we learn in this podcast, stopped contributing 20 years later) is the guest on this week’s CCCP. Above, top left, going clockwise: Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Alex Gregory, and Paul Nesja. Listen here. _________________________________________________________________________ And…on the podcast, Moxie By Proxie, Sarah Getz, the
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Dan Misdea Guests On Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad Pod Mr. Misdea began contributing to The New Yorker in the July 26, 2021 issue. Listen here! Visit his website here. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Michael Shaw began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ___________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, June 6-11, 2022
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