A Yale Record New Yorker Parody Issue With “Thurbs” This 1961 Yale Record New Yorker parody, The Yew Norker, is a recent addition to the Spill’s New Yorker parody collection mentioned here the other day). I was pleased (and surprised) to find the below Thurber parody drawing. Pleased and surprised because new Thurber drawings hadn’t appeared in The
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Cover Released…Ed Steed’s Forces Of Nature. Coming this October from Drawn & Quarterly, this first collection of drawings from Ed Steed, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. His publisher says Mr. Steed’s work is“Steeped in the classic formalist tradition of the single-panel gag…” _______________________________________________________________________ Ed Steed’s A-Z Spill entry: Edward Steed (photo and self portrait above) Born in
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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: above and below (?) from the cartoonist, Ed Steed. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: It’s the 3rd “Cartoons & Puzzles Issue,” with numerous pages of the magazine devoted to multi-panel strips. But first, the Spill‘s primary focus: the single
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Art & Artists For many years I’ve had a very small ongoing non-cartoon sideline: doing oil paintings on canvas or board. These are done for a laugh; a different kind of laugh than cartoons. They’re given to family members on birthdays and holidays, or sometimes they’re just placed on a shelf. Left: an example of one of the paintings (done
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