Weedsy: The “E” In “THE” If you enjoy weedsy, this Spill entry is for you. The other day I was looking at Rea Irvin’s cover art for the very first issue of The New Yorker when I noticed something I’d never noticed before: the lowest arm of the “E” in the word “THE” has a bit of an angle to
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New Kickstarter Campaign Launches For Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Documentary Film Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker over forty years ago, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help bring her documentary film, Women Laughing, out into the world. Link here to the Women Laughing Kickstarter Here’s Liza on the film: “I’ve spent the last year co-directing
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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 cartoonists, fourteen cartoons. No newbies, and no duos, that we know of. The longest contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first drawing appeared in the magazine dated July 3, 1978. Nice to
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Attempted Bloggery’s Arno Quest It took a long long time — decades! — for Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler to complete a Peter Arno quest that involved original Arno art, a New York City gallery, a now defunct humor magazine, and, of course, persistence. Read about it here. ____________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8,
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