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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Latest Additions To The Spill Library: Two volumes of bound New Yorkers recently arrived here. I’m slowly filling in the early 1970s bound issues (there are plenty of loose issues in the library). This time period is especially of interest to me because these were the issues I studied, as a high school student, as they arrived in the
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New Yorker Cartoonists Galore at the At Wit’s End Launch Party A terrif turn-out last night (despite the cold hard rain) in NYC at the Rizzoli bookstore for the launch of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. A goodly number of New Yorker artists were on hand to help send the book out into the world. Group photo
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Edward Koren Exhibit At Ohio State University Text from the website: This retrospective of Koren’s New Yorker work spans his entire career, beginning with his very early cartoons and first contributions to the magazine in the 1960s, and also includes a small fraction of the thousands of preliminary sketches that he regularly submitted. Link here for more on the exhibit. Edward
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