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 Eighteen new cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Brendan Loper has a Sketchpad). No newbies. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist.
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–published in The New Yorker April 10, 2017 _________________________________________________________________________ There’s A New Cartoon Editor In Town The Metropolitan Review — an online “books and culture review magazine” announced the other day that it had appointed Jason Chatfield as its cartoon editor. Mr. Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017 posted the news on Substack:
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Peter Arno In The Society of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Peter Arno, the great, if not the greatest New Yorker cartoonist, is one of the SOI’s 2025 Hall Of Fame inductees. Go here to see more on Arno as well as all the other hall of famers. –above: Arno poses for Time magazine in 1928 Here’s Arno’s A-Z Entry:
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Until modern times*, it wasn’t that often we’d see one cartoonist reference another cartoonist’s work. Here’s an example from (I’m guessing) 1947, when Hollywood turned out the Danny Kaye film of Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. In this case, the cartoonist referencing another was Robert Kraus, a New Yorker colleague of Thurber’s… but the drawing did not appear
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