My thanks to Scott Burns for sending along this wonderful piece by Eldon Dedini, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1950. Mr. Dedini also had a long association with Playboy. Below: from the Dedini exhibit at the Billy Rose Cartoon Library & Museum Mr. Dedini’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z : Born 1921, King City, Calif. Died January
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of June 18, 1984
As mentioned here last week, it’s double issue time again. We’re halfway though it now ; only a week til the new issue (dated June 18, 2018) appears online early Monday morning. Just for fun I thought I’d go back to another June 18th issue — the one from 1984. Here’s the cover, by Susan Davis, who contributed fifteen covers
Read morePhoto of Note: Eldon Dedini; The Monday Tilley Watch
Photo of Note: Eldon Dedini Out of the blue, the Monterey Herald posted this fine photo of the late Eldon Dedini under the headline, “Looking Back, Portrait of a Cartoonist” Here’s Mr. Dedini’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Eldon Dedini ( Pictured above. Source: Esquire Cartoon Album, 1957) Born 1921, King City, Calif. Died Jan.12, 2006, Carmel, Calif. New Yorker
Read moreA 32 Year Old New Yorker Cartoon Sampler
This being a Monday, the Monday Tilley Watch would normally be here, but last week’s issue was a double — we won’t see a new issue until next Monday. So here’s an addendum to yesterday’s post (about the magazine’s 60th anniversary album): A Cartoon Sampler, published in 1985 (wow, what a celebratory mood the magazine was in). Samplers were not
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