Before we dip a toe into the latest issue, here’s a reminder that there are now just three issues to go before The New Yorker celebrates the 100th anniversary of its first issue (shown here). Will we see that cover — Rea Irvin’s masterpiece — brought back? Wouldn’t that be something! The Monday Tilley Watch takes a
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Greatly looking forward to this exhibit at The Society of Illustrators, curated by long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly Details from the SOI’s social media post: More information here — the drawing above is from Gluyas Williams’s New Yorker series, Fellow Citizens. This one, titled Observation Platform, was published March 11, 1933. See it in full here ________________________________________________________________ Ali Solomon’s
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Draw, Draw, Draw As we near the weekend, it comes as no surprise to me how anxious I am for the weekly New Yorker art department submission process to begin anew (the department’s been closed for the holidays. Two weeks have gone by without submitting work). The “process” has been the common thread throughout my life since I was a
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— the following is excerpted from my as yet unpublished memoir Lightning Strikes, Thurber-Style On a summer’s day in 1972, when I was eighteen turning nineteen, I was in my rented room of a Victorian home in Cape May, New Jersey, when a fellow renter, and a friend, Matthew, walked in, laughing hysterically. He held a copy of James
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