The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Knockoffs The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of. That duo (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist) is also the issue’s newbie: Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy, the 8th addition to
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Event Of Interest: Stan Mack, Rick Meyerowitz, Victor Juhasz, Steve Brodner The quartet celebrates Mr. Mack’s upcoming Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies (out in June from Fantagraphics) at The Society Of Illustrators. All the info here. __________________________________________________________________ Tilley Watch Online, May 13-17, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on
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Event Of Interest, May 18, 2024 at Comix Experience. More information here Ozge Samanci began contributing to The New Yorker in 2021. Visit her website here. amy kurweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here. _________________________________________________________________ Bob Eckstein Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Eckstein (above left) joins co-hosts (top right, then clockwise:
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Some Other Thurbers Books by Thurber, including such familiar titles as My Life and Hard Times, and The Thurber Carnival, are the foundation of any Thurber collection. But Thurber also illustrated a number of books for others. Major beneficiaries of Thurber art are shown above (and below). I’m showing various In A Word covers simply because I love them all.
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