The Weekend Spill: Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 30, 2019 – January 3, 2020

                                       Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings From Princeton University’s Firestone Library Special Collections, “Henry Martin’s Spots” — this piece on Mr. Martin’s considerable Spot Drawing contribution to The New Yorker during his thirty-five year run at magazine. Here’s a fun photo from the article: Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin (Photo: 1984). Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky.

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From The Archives: The Humble New Yorker Art Department Office Supply; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Here’s a fun oddity: the stamp/envelope moistener that once sat in The New Yorker‘s Art Department at the magazine’s 25 West 43rd Street address. The moistener, sold by Chicago’s Wilson Jones Company, seems have been manufactured in the 1940s. It was in use at The New Yorker until 1991, when the magazine moved south across 43rd Street to modern digs

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Q & A Of Interest: Ellis Rosen; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)

Q & A Of Interest: Ellis Rosen From Unsettled, “Q & A With Ellis Rosen, Cartoonist and Illustrator For The New Yorker” Mr. Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit his website here. ____________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist “How To Mindfully Break Up With Your Meditation App” — a duo effort by writer, Julia Edelman and cartoonist,

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The New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Blitt’s Kvetchbook; New Yorker Cartoonist Newbies 2019

New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo. It’s only taken me twenty-two years to notice that the New Yorker switched its cover placement of the issue date and issue price. Since the very first issue, published February 21, 1925, the issue date appeared top left, and the price upper right. Seventy-three years after that first issue, in the summer of 1998,

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