Pub Day for Tom Toro’s Cartoon Collection Once upon a time, non-themed New Yorker cartoon collections were a time-honored tradition in the publishing world. It was never a question of, say, if there’d be a new Sam Gross collection, it was only a matter of when. These days, non-themed New Yorker cartoon collections are a rarity (what a pity!)
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons A dozen cartoonists, and a dozen cartoons. No duos (that we know of). No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist (I got my foot in the door in 1977). This
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At Wit’s End Redux It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since At Wit’s End came out (it was in stores November of 2024). Here we are three-quarters of the way through The New Yorker‘s centennial (February of 2025 through February 2026) and At Wit’s End remains the only book out there this year celebrating the magazine’s
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A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here! Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New
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