The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist. Always so
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The New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd joins Bill Maher for another installment of Decoding New Yorker Cartoons. It’s almost as much fun watching Mr. Maher try to explain the decoding process to his guests as it is watching the process itself. See it here!
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The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Becky Barnicoat, Guy Richards Smit, Niall Maher, Adam Douglas Thompson, Peter Kuper, Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy (a duo) Shouts & Murmurs: “Raising Felix: Google Misunderstood” by Julia Wertz Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Sunday In
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As I’ve leisurely made my way through decades of the earliest back issues of The New Yorker I’ve come across a number of things I never cataloged before. Below are three full page ads featuring Thurber art for the play “Rain From Heaven”— it doesn’t appear that Thurber had anything to do with the play other than contributing these illustrations
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