56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Steinberg Spots, Or Cartoons? Steinberg the cartoonist, Steinberg the artist… Steinberg the spot artist? The New Yorker sometimes refers to to its cartoonists as artists, and to its cartoons as drawings (but not exclusively). And so, yes, Steinberg is, according to The New Yorker, an artist and cartoonist. (The New York Times obit of Steinberg called him an “artist and
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…Marc Philippe Eskenazi, who once upon a time worked in The New Yorker’s Cartoon Department, is interviewed by the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast folks. Listen here. … Here’s a tie-in piece for Roz Chast’s latest book, I Must Be Dreaming: The New York Times visits Ms.Chast At Home. …Here’s a piece about AddamsFest 2023. …and this, on November 2nd,
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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: walkers The Cartoonists And Cartoons: As of 8:45 this morning, the October 2, 2023 magazine has not been posted online (it’s usually posted at 6 am), so I’m reluctantly relying on the “Cartoons From The Issue” slideshow. “Reluctantly” because
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