Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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Two New Podcasts: Chris Weyant on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast and Michael Maslin On The Cartoon Pad Chris Weyant is the latest guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast, hosted by Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, and Paul Nesja. Mr. Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. And on The Cartoon Pad, I
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A cat in the window. This is, at the least, the 5th cat in a window New Yorker cover since the early 1970s (I’ll eventually go all the way back to the beginning of the magazine’s
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: For a split second, when this week’s cover appeared on my screen, I thought we had fast-forwarded to the January 3, 2022 issue (y’know, New Years, with cocktail glasses and a top hat). I admit I needed
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