99 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker Here’s a quick look at the issue of January 16, 1926 — the second time The New Yorker published in January (any January). The magazine hadn’t yet settled on the Rea Irvin Talk
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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of January 13, 2025
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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Weekend Spill: Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Exhibit At The Society Of Illustrators; Ali Solomon’s Graphic Novel; The Tilley Watch Online, December 30, 2024- January 3, 2025
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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Friday Spill: Draw, Draw, Draw
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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