The New Yorker’s First Christmas Issue –Above: S.W. Reynold’s cover — his second of a dozen for The New Yorker The not quite year old New Yorker was still finding its sea legs by the end of 1925. Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters had yet to appear; Ellin Mackay’s “Why We Go to Cabarets” had just recently broken through and started
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons A double issue, ringing out the old year, and ringing in the new. Fifteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad, and Barry Blitt has an illustration). One duo, that we know of: Joseph Dottino
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An Abe Birnbaum Children’s Book I was browsing Ebay this morning when the below caught my eye: a 72 year old children’s book by one of my all-time favorite New Yorker cover artists, Abe Birnbaum. I’d never heard of it, never seen the cover before. Here are a few pages from the book. I just love Birnbaum’s style — the
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 15-19, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Anjali Chandrashekar, Liana Finck, Habiba Nabisubi, Brendan Loper, Dan Misdea See them here. Sketchbook: “The Disruptors Behind Radiohead’s Art” by Zoe Si _________________________________________________________________ An Online Post & Photo Of Interest As part of
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