Homecoming Not too long ago (a week-and-a-half at most) Liza Donnelly and I drove into Manhattan and picked up a carload of original cartoon art that had been exhibited at The Society of Illustrators (“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”).This event — the exhibit and the retrieval of the work — was a Liza Donnelly operation. I was
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The Latest Bill Maher New Yorker Cartoon Decoding Episode Bill Maher has a good laugh looking at Mick Stevens’ June 4 2007 New Yorker drawing in the latest “decoding New Yorker cartoons” episode (featuring a not so game Whitney Cummings).
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Video: Donnelly & Maslin On The 4th Liza Donnelly invited me to join her live, on her July 4th Substack. We talked about all sorts of things New Yorkery, then drew our takes on a 1941 James Thurber July 4th New Yorker cover. Watch here. _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, June 30 -July 4, 2025 An end of the week
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It didn’t take long for The New Yorker to have its first July 4th cover (by that I mean, an issue dated July 4th). Ilonka Karasz delivered this Coney Island-centric beauty — her fourth New Yorker cover — when the magazine was less than six months old. Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick,
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