The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: released last week. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Michael Lukk Litwak, who is the 18th addition to the print magazine’s cartoon colosseum this year, and the 162nd
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Early Cover Release: The New Yorker, October 21, 2024 issue Next week’s cover, released three days early, with art by Owen Smith, is a rarity: a cover directly tied-in to a major piece within the magazine, “Alexei
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Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan From Bruce Eric Kaplan, (his drawings are signed BEK) this promotional video for his new book, They Went Another Way.: A Hollywood Memoir (out October 22 from Henry Holt & Co.). Mr. Kaplan began contributing drawings to The New Yorker in 1991. ____________________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Two Poets & Two Cartoonists Both Bob Eckstein
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Tower Of Thurber Files Yesterday’s Spill mentioned a stack of Cartoonist PROfiles donated to the archives. This week also brought several boxes containing several pounds of research files on James Thurber from another Spill booster, the fab Michael Rosen, editor of A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art of James Thurber
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