Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Will Santino, Ellis Rosen, Kit Fraser, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Timothy Cahill and Ryan Walls). _____________________________________________________________________________ Book Stories I thought it would be fun, on
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— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
Read moreThere are probably as many different work habits among New Yorker cartoonists as there are New Yorker cartoonists. I’ve heard of colleagues who are nine-to-fivers, and those who’ve worked the night shift. There was even a rumor of a colleague, now long gone, who did his batch of cartoons on the train as he headed down from Connecticut to see
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