The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Sixteen cartoonists, sixteen cartoons. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. Cover artist, Marcellus Hall, has Spots. The longest active contributing cartoonist is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing was published July 3, 1978.
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A 42 Year Old Edward Koren Ad Booklet: “How To Approach A Wall” Yesterday, visiting a friend, he handed me this 1983 twelve page illustrated ad booklet from his archives (thanks my friend, for the donation!). Though the booklet’s been around forty-two years, it was brand new to me.The artist is the late very great Edward Koren. The client was
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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 Issue: This is the second of four planned special issues celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary. The Cover: Seeing this week’s oval-centric cover, I immediately recalled some of The New Yorker covers contributed by the late great Pierre Le-Tan.
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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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