The New Yorker Is 100 Years Old!… “We Long To Be Something Else”; The Monday Tilley Watch…The Issue of February 17 & 24, 2025

On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that

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Wednesday Spill: New From J.C. Duffy…”Twisted Nursery Rhymes”; Chocolates Of Interest From Liza Donnelly; Billy Ireland Celebrates Edward Koren; More Feiffer

New Animation From J.C. Duffy J.C. Duffy began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. His cartoon (below) of October 31, 2011 was the very first meta cartoon in the magazine (the original is currently on exhibit at The Society of Illustrators Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration). Go here to see Mr. Duffy’s “Twisted Nursery Rhymes”  _____________________________________________________________________

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