The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A hazy shade of Summer The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Sophia Warren has a “Sketchpad”). One duo, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in this issue is this cartoonist. This
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“At Wit’s End” Back Cover Reveal The cover of At Wit’s End, a collection of 52 New Yorker cartoonist portraits (Foreword by The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen; essays by yours truly), has been online for a
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First & Last: Ralph Newman Here’s another entry in a now somewhat long line of First & Last posts. The “first” is the very first appearance of a New Yorker artist’s drawing in the magazine, and the “last” is the last. In
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Thurber At Vassar What a nice surprise to learn that Vassar has two Thurber original drawings. The one above now joins (in my memory bank) the handful of other “complicated” Thurber drawings
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