2019 was an unusually rough year in the loss column for New Yorker cartoonists. We lost Nurit Karlin in April, Dana Fradon in October, and then Gahan Wilson in November. Although we miss them, and mourn them, we have thousands of their cartoons at hand in anthologies, collections, and online. A wonderful thing happened this morning when I began looking
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of December 9, 2019; Terry Gross’s 1986 Gahan Wilson Interview; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Ink Spill experienced technical issues for much of the past twelve hours and thus the Monday Tilley Watch will be abbreviated today. Apologies! The Cover: from Tom Gauld, a starry starry night black & blue paneled cover. Read a Q&A with him here about it. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Two newbies in this issue: Jared Nangle and Mo Welch. They
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists Remember Gahan Wilson; The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of December 2, 2019; Library Of Congress Interview With Thurber Expert, Michael Rosen; Meet The Artist (1943): William Gropper; The Tilley Watch Online, November 18-22, 2019
New Yorker Cartoonists Remember Gahan Wilson The New Yorker cartoonist community is quite small. Our numbers are great enough to field a softball team, but not enough to fill your average sized auditorium. Whether we knew Gahan well, or very little, or not at all, we know his work, and feel the loss of one of our family. What follows
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We have learned this afternoon of the passing of one of the cartoon world’s greats, Gahan Wilson. His stepson, Paul Winters, announced it on Facebook: Articles about Mr. Wilson’s passing (the list will be updated): The New Yorker, November 22, 2019, “The Beautifully Macabre Cartoons of Gahan Wilson” The New York Times, November 22, 2019, “Gahan Wilson, Vividly Macabre Cartoonist,
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