The Wednesday Tilley Watch… Article Of Interest: Gahan Wilson; Meet Tom Chitty; Liza Donnelly At SXSW; Short-Listed For The Cartoonist Studio Prize: Summer Pierre, Liana Finck, Tom Tomorrow, Hartley Lin, and Gabrielle Bell; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ellis Rosen

Article Of Interest: Gahan Wilson From the Sag Harbor Express, March 12, 2019, “A Call For Help For A World-Famous Cartoonist, Formerly Of Sag Harbor” — a good article about the ailing New Yorker cartoonist and the GoFundMe campaign underway to help him. (photo: Mr. Wilson and his late wife, Nancy, with a Gahan Wilson character between them, 1970) ___________________________________

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The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of February 4, 2019

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,

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The 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.

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