Seven years ago I received an anonymous gift through the mail: an interesting copy of Peter Arno’s 1931 collection of drawings, Hullabaloo. The book was obviously well-loved as it included a stack of clipped drawings (mostly cartoons) and glued-in clippings (cartoons by Arno, some by his New Yorker colleagues). One of the pasted-in clippings is a piece by Selma
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I took a moment this morning to dig through a stack of long-neglected vinyl albums. The above 1956 Dave Brubeck Trio album was just a few lps below some classical albums. The cover is by the great Arnold Roth, an artist with an abundance of tools in his artist’s toolbox (remember his covers for John Updike’s Bech books? A bonus
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The Tilley Watch Online: The Week Of November 30 -December 4, 2020 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Yasin Osman, Ben Schwartz, Emily Flake, Brooke Bourgeois, Teresa Burns Parkhurst Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump’s Explosive Tell-All” Video Department: “How To Draw A Wedding” Another in a series featuring The New Yorker’s
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ali Solomon, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018, on a classic restriction. …And Yesterday‘s: Brooke Bourgeois, who began contributing to The New Yorker last year, on pandemic photos.
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__________________________________________________________________________ A Fave Warren Miller Interview Stephen Nadler’s Warren Miller Attempted Bloggery post last week caused me to revisit Mr. Miller’s two cartoon collections, All Thumbs and Prince and Mrs. Charming. When I took Mr. Miller’s first collection, All Thumbs ( Bobbs-Merrill, 1967) off the shelf and looked at the cover I was reminded I hadn’t read Whitney Balliett‘s intro
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