Six Covers In his thirty-four years as a New Yorker contributor, James Thurber did six covers for the magazine. The covers, shown above, are dated, left to right: February 29, 1936, April 29, 1939, April 27, 1940, July 5, 1941, October 3, 1942, February 9, 1946. You might remember that the February ’36 cover was brought back as a cover
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Some New Yorker Cartoon Go-Tos There are a number of New Yorker collections I go-to more than others. This doesn’t mean I won’t occasionally visit the earliest “Albums,” but on a day-to-day basis the above get the most attention. The exceptions (always exceptions) are the three Yearbooks (2007, 2008, 2009). I like having those close to where I work
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing: John Corcoran A decade ago, when I interviewed Lee Lorenz (The New Yorker‘s former Art/Cartoon editor), one of the new-to-me pieces of information I heard was that The New Yorker cartoonist John Corcoran had been supplying a good number of
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: wafer cone The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Brendan Loper has a “Sketchpad”). One duo, that we know of. No newbies. As this is a double issue, we’ll have to wait until the next new issue,
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