Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists. Although he began his thirty-four year New Yorker career as a cartoonist, Constantin Alajalov soon turned to contributing covers. One hundred and seventy of them to be exact. His cartoon contributions numbered forty-three. I’m not quite sure about this,
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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: Birds. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). No newbies, no duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist contributor in this issue is Roz Chast, whose first cartoon appeared
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 1-5, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, David Sipress, Liam Walsh, Johnny DiNapoli, Sarah Kempah. _________________________________________________________________________ Helen Hokinson Quote of The Week: “They’re Really As Ridiculous As I Draw Them…”
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The One Before “The One” Every New Yorker cartoonist remembers their first OK — that is, their first drawing sold to The New Yorker. For some of us, that first sale was a discomforting experience because the magazine decided to buy the drawing’s idea, and not the drawing itself. That was my experience in the summer of 1977 when this
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