The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: The second embracing couple cover of the year, this one tied into 9/11. The Cartoonists: Twenty cartoons, twenty-one cartoonists. The twenty-first is Ed Steed who takes care of Spot drawing duties in this week’s issue. The Spill
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: The beach…and mom The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has the cover). No newbies, no duos that we know of. Noted that there’s a drawing by birthday boy, Sam Gross — he turned
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George Booth Doc Film At Rooftop Films Summer Series The documentary, Drawing Life, by Nathan Fitch, celebrates one of The New Yorker‘s cartoon gods (Mr. Booth turned 95 just a few days ago). It will be shown as part of the short films series on the evening of July 17. Details here! The Spill‘s
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Happy 95th, George Booth! Our very best wishes to New Yorker cartoon god, George Booth! The Spill‘s George Booth entry: George Booth Born June 28, 1926, Cainesville, MO. New Yorker work: June 14, 1969 – . Key collections: Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat (Dodd, Mead, 1975), Rehearsal’s Off! (Dodd, Mead, 1976), Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth (Congdon
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