The New Yorker is Ad Age’s Magazine of the Year; The Tilley Watch: A New Yorker Christmassy Carol

  I took this photo of the Spill‘s Eustace Tilley collection a few years ago — seems appropriate to post it today to celebrate Advertising Age naming The New Yorker Magazine of the Year, its editor, David Remnick as Editor of the Year and Lisa Hughes as Publisher of the Year. Congrats to all!  Read the article here. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________

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The Ink Spill Jack Ziegler Interview, Pt. 2

    In Part 1 of my interview with Jack Ziegler he mentioned having a few certain favorite drawings among [his] “children.” I asked him to name several for us to discuss over the phone. I also picked out a handful of my Ziegler favorites to discuss. As Jack said he’d like to be surprised, I had a number of

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The Ink Spill Jack Ziegler Interview

Jack Ziegler, recently referred to on this site as the Godfather of Contemporary New Yorker Cartoonists, has been contributing to the magazine since February of  1974. Now in 2016 he is solidly in the K Crowd — meaning he’s published well over a thousand cartoons and one cover in The New Yorker (we’ll get to the cover later).  Considering that

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