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: A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. Of the twelve, yours truly is the longest active contributing cartoonist. No newbies. One duo (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). This week’s cartoons (in a slide show). The Cartoon
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More Mahrer New Yorker Cartoon “Decoding” Bill Maher continues “decoding” New Yorker cartoons with his guests. This week his guest is Gavin Rossdale. Watch here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sunday Reading…Back to The Beginning Above are books containing work that energized me as a little kid, and prompted me to draw. Every cartoonist rests on a foundation of work by others. Every now
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Video Chat Of Interest: Tom Toro & Christopher Weyant A short but fun conversation between these two cartoonists — some of the discussion centers about their recent childrens books. Watch it here. *** From the Dept. of Shameless Plugs: Both Mr. Toro and Mr. Weyant are profiled in At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker ________________________________________________________ 84 Year
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Yesterday afternoon, a “funny” moment: I was going through a manila folder at the bottom of a box full of James Thurber-centric manila folders (all courtesy of Michael Rosen) when I came across this undated news clipping by James Thurber that began: “Just the other afternoon, I was going through an old manila envelope containing the odds and ends,
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