Podcast/Interview Of Interest: David Remnick Here’s an interesting interview from Magazeum, “A Conversation With Editor David Remnick” (you can either listen to it or read the transcript) with the magazine’s current editor, David Remnick. Somewhere around midway in the piece he discusses cartoons. Link here. ____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of June 3-7, 2024 An end of the week
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A 1987 Ad Thanking William Shawn From the This is News to Me Dept.: an ad in Variety, published February 4, 1987, signed by a dozen New Yorker luminaries, thanking William Shawn for his editorship of the magazine (he was editor from 1952 through 1987). This particular copy of the ad, found on Ebay, is, apparently, a print of the
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A Thurber blast from the past (link here for a brief interview with Thurber’s granddaughter, Sara Sauers). The Cartoonists and Cartoons: This is a semi-archival issue, republishing pieces (Joseph Mitchell, Susan Orlean, Vladimir Nabokov, etc.) from the magazine’s
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 7-11, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, Ellie Black, Ali Solomon, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Shannon Wheeler, Brooke Bourgeois. Daily Shouts: Lynn Hsu. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook:
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