The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: What, no Rocky Road? The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Roz Chast has the cover, and there’s an illustration by the late Saul Steinberg). No newbies (and no duos, that we know of). The longest active
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 29 – August 2, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Trevor Hoey, Brendan Loper, Paul Karasik, Farley Katz, Will Santino, Kit Fraser. See them here. _________________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Emma Hunsinger From The Nerd Daily, “Q & A,
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Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Hokinson, Soglow, Hamilton, Shellhase Originals On Ebay There’s life in original cartoon art — the markings, the “mistakes,”(often covered up with white out), the errant fingerprints, the ink and/or pencil or watercolors on paper, the aged (or not) color of the paper –all of it. Here’s a gathering of some of the original art
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What It’s Like Under Thurber’s Spell I’ve been under Thurber’s spell so long I hardly remember what it was like in the beforetimes. Well, that’s not really true: I remember subconsciously looking for graphic guidance in the pre “Dr. Millmoss” years. Comic books, comic strips, fine artists, underground artists — they all had their inspirational moments. Each helped in some
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