The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: city sax. The Cartoonists And Cartoons Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbies. One duo, that we know of (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist). The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist. This Week’s
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 22-26, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ivan Ehlers, Ed Himelblau, Christopher Weyant, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper. Shouts & Murmurs: Zoe Si (“Writers, Writers, Everywhere”) , Liana Finck (“Anthropology Of The Playground”). Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Up In
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“Seneca At The General Store” is a special contribution from Edward Koren’s long-time friend, the author Howard Norman. (Mr. Koren passed away in April of 2023). This is the second installment from Mr. Norman (and Mr. Koren’s) in-the-works, “No Conversation Long Enough: Ed Koren’s Haiku Dialogues”. (The first can be found here). My thanks to Howard Norman for permission to
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As with so much new-to-me New Yorker material, new-to-me James Thurber material keeps popping up. A for instance: His introduction to New Yorker writer Mary Mian’s 1947 novel, My Country-In-Law (the title ever-so-vaguely reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, published in 2021). I bought a copy of Ms. Mian’s book not knowing how long the Thurber intro would be
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