Two weeks ago today I Spilled about getting hold of the 1950 21st anniversary edition of James Thurber & E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary? (and not too long before that I mentioned buying a 1990 modern edition). This past Sunday, after some time browsing at my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn, I was about to head out the door when
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Here’s part two of the Summertime slow New Yorker news week with a few of my New Yorker pool drawings (thank goodness for butlers and whales!). _____________________________________________________________________ Dates of publication: “We’ll take it.” June 13, 1983 “If you splash, expect to be splashed back.” August 26, 2013 “Sir, a Mr. Krueller, of the real world.” August 26, 1985 “Bob up
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Just days away from the Fourth of July, things are fairly quiet in New Yorker cartoonland. The cartoon department has unplugged for a couple of weeks, and the latest issue of the New Yorker is a double (we won’t see a new issue until July 14th!). I thought this might be a good moment to head to the beach via
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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 In this double issue: sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Ed Steed has Spots). No duos, that we know of, and no newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker
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