The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: The Games Begin The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Millie von Platen has Spots). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. Nice to see a Sam Gross cartoon
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An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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Liza Donnelly In Conversation With Historian Heather Cox Richardson Ms. Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979, will join with the historian Heather Cox Richardson on July 25 up in (down in?) Damariscotta, Maine. All the information you need appears in the poster below. Related: From The Boothbay Register, July 18, 2024, “Heather Cox Richardson Welcomes New
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It is always a very happy day when a James Thurber original drawing arrives at Spill headquarters. I fell for the one shown below some weeks back. I’d never seen it before, and never seen one like it before. Thurber’s somewhat apprehensive man is so great. I loved the moon and the star. There was something oddly positive about
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