2025 marks the 100th birthday of The New Yorker, and my 48th year contributing to Harold Ross’s “comic weekly.” It’s strange to think I’ve been around for nearly half the magazine’s lifetime. When my first New Yorker check arrived, in the summer of 1977, it felt as if I had been welcomed into an improbable rickety backyard clubhouse, inhabited by
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Exhibit Of Interest…Edward Koren’s “See Anyone You Know?” It’s kind of nice, on this last day of the year, that the below came in today’s mail. A good way to wrap up the year, thinking about one of The New Yorker‘s kindest and greatest artists. Read more here about the exhibit. ____________________________________________________________ Edward Koren’s A-Z Entry: Edward Koren (photo, Fall
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We’re halfway through two weeks covered by the New Yorker double issue of December 26th, 2024 & January 6th, 2025. The regular Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday, January 6, 2025. Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws! Here’s a fun short video the terrif Peter Steiner posted on social media. Mr. Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979.
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 23-27, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Niall Maher (as of this writing, an online only cartoonist contributor),Tyson Cole, Dimita Rizou (as of this writing, an online only cartoonist contributor), Tom Chitty, Joe Dator. See all the Daily
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