As football is so associated with Thanksgiving, what better way to celebrate James Thurber, football, and Thanksgiving than to post this Homecoming program, dated November 21, 1936 cover for Thurber’s Alma mater, Ohio State. Here’s a Thurber-centric snippet from OSU’s The Lantern: Here’s more on Thurber, Ohio State, and Chic Harley (the post includes Thurber’s piece, “When Chic Harley Got
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Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized
Read moreTaking another look through a Life Magazine (dated December 7, 1942) that contains a great article on holiday New Yorker art (“Cartoon Books: “New Yorker” Art Fills New Albums”), I was reminded of this headline that accompanies a double page spread of Charles Addams’ art: Unfortunately I can’t show you the entire piece (you can see the issue’s contents by
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A big congrats to cartoonist colleague, Tom Toro on his first cover! The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Tom Toro has the cover). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Greg Nussbaum, who is the
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