The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: lotsa cats and a lady The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. No newbies. No duo (that we know of). The longest active contributor in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing was published
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AddamsFest 2024 From Patch.com, September 6, 2024, “Addamsfest Returns to Westfield In October 2024” Note: Jersey’s own, Dan Misdea will be on hand on Sunday, October 6th for a “Cartooning Workshop.” Mr.
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I’m not sure when it happened, but sometime in the past twenty years, Friday became the new Thursday for New Yorker cartoonists. Fridays are the days when cartoonists who have submitted work to the magazine the previous Tuesday, hear whether they’ve sold a drawing (you don’t hear if you haven’t). Nearly a half century ago, when I finally broke into
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Hardly a week goes by that something turns up, Thurber-wise, on Ebay, that I’ve never seen before. Case in point: this article by Doug Ermini for the April/May 1992 issue of Timeline Magazine (a Ohio Historical Society publication). Not just a page or two on Thurber, but ten, with numerous Thurber drawings, and photographs. If you’re new to Thurber and
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