James Thurber’s Blue Plate Specials The other day I received an email about several blue plates featuring drawings by James Thurber. I’d never seen anything like them before. I guessed they might be homemade due to the choice of
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Tag: Cartoonists
Wednesday Spill: Two More Shelves Of Books By New Yorker Authors (Benchley To Roth)
I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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Monday Tilley Watch…The New Yorker Issue Of August 19, 2024
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: For yet another “Archival Issue” (“Comedy” is the theme) the magazine is re-running a classic Charles Addams cover that originally appeared February 2, 1963. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Nine (new) cartoons, ten cartoonists (Mr. Addams has the cover).
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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, August 5-9, 2024; Latest Addition to The Spill Library…Sylvia Plachy’s “Going On About Town: Photographs For The New Yorker”; More Spills: Obit Of Interest…Anton van Dalen (Steinberg Content); Emma Hunsinger, Asher Perlman, Amy Kurzweil, Liana Finck
Tilley Watch Online, August 5-9, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, Brendan Loper, David Sipress, Adam Douglas Thompson, Jonathan Rosen. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Sometimes RFK, Jr. Gets The Bear” _______________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition to The Spill Library Not a cartoon in sight, but that’s
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