The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
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John Lennon: “I was about 15 when I started Thurberizing the drawings.”
Back in December of 2013 Ink Spill ran a piece, “John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection.” To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, I’m re-posting that piece, albeit in slightly edited form. Anyone familiar with John Lennon’s and James Thurber’s drawings can’t help but see some cross-pollination from Thurber to Lennon. Lennon’s drawings, published in 1964’s In His Own
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This coming Sunday, the 8th of December, marks two anniversaries of note, one happy and the other not at all happy. The happier one: James Thurber was born that day in 1894. The unhappy anniversary: it was on that day in 1980 that the former Beatle, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Other than that
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As a cartoonist it’s (mostly) all about what’s next; this may explain why I sometimes like to take a breather and think about what was. Still in a celebratory mode because of The New Yorker’s 86th anniversary, I went to my collection of anniversary issues and pulled out the issue from fifty years ago, dated February 18, 1961. Thought I’d
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