The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Blitt crossing the Delaware. The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). No newbies, no duos that we know of. The Cartoons: Two familiar scenarios turn up in this issue: “some day,
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Snowing here at Spill Headquarters. A nice way to enter the weekend. Charles McGrath On Daniel Menaker Be sure to check out Charles McGrath’s Postscript: “Remembering Daniel Menaker, A Lighthearted Champion Of His Writers” _________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon… Johnny DiNapoli on candy corn. Mr. Dinapoli began contributing to The New Yorker in June of 2019. Visit his website
Read moreCartoonists mostly live solitary work lives. When they’ve finished a drawing, sit back and take a look at it, the feedback usually comes from within; then there’s the occasional laugh from their spouse, friend, room mate or visitor. In the reverse, it’s also usually a solitary experience for someone looking at a cartoon in a magazine. More often than not,
Read moreIt’s silly to rate cartoonists, but around here, as anyone who follows Ink Spill knows, James Thurber is the #1 New Yorker cartoonist. Thinking about him on the eve of his birthday (he was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894) I stood in front of the Thurber
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