Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Thurber Couldn’t Draw? Pshaw! Whenever James Thurber’s drawings come up in conversation (outside of this household) it almost never fails that someone will say, almost as an aside, “But of course he couldn’t draw.” For me, those have always been fightin’ words. Thurber was fond of telling this story (you can see him telling it here at the 16:00 mark):
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____________________________________________________________________ Every artist has their own graphic vocabulary — those favorite elements they return to again and again. Some do it out of habit, others out of affection (love even!). I recently looked at a lot of William Steig’s work. One thing that occurred to me as I looked through: he really liked trees. For example, here are some Steig
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchpad). One duo, that we know of (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Dan Mirk, who is the 7th addition this year to the magazine’s
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