The Cover: Vegetation abounds. Here’s what the artist,Tom Gauld had to say about it. The Cartoonists in the new issue: The Magazine: Whenever February comes around, I begin thinking about the upcoming anniversary issue of The New Yorker, a favorite child here on this site (Spill visitors might remember this Tilley-centric piece I wrote for newyorker.com a few years back). Seeing
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New Yorker Cartoonists Holiday Party
Decades ago, in the William Shawn era, New Yorker cartoonists celebrated the holidays in-house (specifically, in-department). They’d show up at the office and drink punch provided by the art editor Lee Lorenz and his assistant, Anne Hall. Cartoonists would sample rum balls brought in by their colleague, Henry Martin. During the Tina Brown years the holiday party went big time,
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, December 10-14, 2018
An all Trump week on the Daily. The contributing New Yorker cartoonists: Christopher Weyant, Darrin Bell, Navied Mahdavian, Ellis Rosen and Lizzy Itzkowitz (Ms. Itzkowitz, whose drawing appeared on Monday, is to-date, an online contributor). New Yorker cartoonists contributing to Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald, and Olivia de Recat (with Julia Edelman). To see all the work above, and more, link here.
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, November 5-9, 2018; Site Of Interest: A New Yorker State Of Mind; Short Interview Of Interest: Art Spiegelman
The emphasis was, of course(!), on the political this week, with at least half of the Daily Cartoons specifically Trump-centered (Farley Katz‘s Amazon drawing referencing hometown baseball and “Midnight Cowboy” (?) was an exception). The other contributing New Yorker cartoonists were Ellis Rosen, Kim Warp, Lars Kenseth, Brendan Loper, and Mort Gerberg. Over on Daily Shouts, Olivia de Recat and
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