Do Numbers Matter? I’m not good with numbers, but I do enjoy numbering. For instance: I keep track of new New Yorker cartoonists as they enter the fold; I have a year-by-year list of who was published, and when their first drawing appeared in the magazine. It gives me some kind of anchoring satisfaction to glance at the list and
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Steinberg returns! Read about it here. Apropos Of Nothing, Really: when I saw this week’s cover it reminded me of my senior year portfolio at The University of Connecticut, submitted in the Spring of 1976. The work inside
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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__________________________________________________________________________ A Fave Warren Miller Interview Stephen Nadler’s Warren Miller Attempted Bloggery post last week caused me to revisit Mr. Miller’s two cartoon collections, All Thumbs and Prince and Mrs. Charming. When I took Mr. Miller’s first collection, All Thumbs ( Bobbs-Merrill, 1967) off the shelf and looked at the cover I was reminded I hadn’t read Whitney Balliett‘s intro
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