The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: animal-walker. The Cartoonists: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a sketchbook — it’s on page 63). No duos (that we know of), no newbies. The Cartoons: Even though we’re not in the vicinity of Halloween, I
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I had to keep myself occupied yesterday afternoon while a repairman was in our basement figuring out why the furnace was sputtering and causing the house to smell like an oil refinery. With the sound of clanging tools just below the floor of the space where I work, I figured it was a good time to grab a bound volume
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1960s Saxon Movie Posters In the Spill‘s inbox yesterday, courtesy of The New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, these posters by the late great Charles Saxon, from the 1969 film, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. Looking around the web for any other info on the film, I ran across a couple of other usages of Saxon’s art on
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Above: Edward Frascino With Aristide Maillol’s “The Mediteranean” at The Museum Of Modern Art, about 1955. Photo courtesy of Mr. Frascino When I joined The New Yorker’s stable of cartoonists in the late 1970s there were perhaps two dozen regulars whose work anchored the magazine’s art. The strength of the stable was, as you would expect, superior cartoonery
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