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: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in July of 1978. This week’s cartoons.
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Article Of Interest From The Guardian From The Guardian, March 23, 2025, this piece by Andrew Anthony: “The New Yorker At 100: ‘We Live In A World Of Misinformation…A Lack Of Verification. Our Readers Want What We Do’” From the article: “The act the magazine finesses is to recognise that the world is a large place while still being alive
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The Tilley Watch Online, March 17-21, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Amy Hwang, Sarah Kempa, Dan Misea, Brendan Loper, Meredith Southard. ______________________________________________________ “Rollicking Satiric Outbursts “…An Ad For A Golden Age New Yorker Album The above ad appeared in the December 9, 1939 New
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Now That’s A Cover! From one of the great (and possibly unheralded) New Yorker cover artists, Constantin Alajalov, this beauty from the issue of January 7, 1939. Mr. Constantin had approximately one hundred and seventy*(!) covers, and forty-three cartoons, in his thirty-four year run at The New Yorker __________________________________________________________________ *The Complete New Yorker database and The Complete Book Of Covers
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