The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A very Chris Ware-y design (which makes sense, as Chris Ware is the cover artist this issue). His cover somewhat reflects this issue’s “Cartoons & Puzzles” theme (I see a ton of puzzle references). Go here to see
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a George Booth Santa Claus. Read Sarah Booth’s reflections on her father. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. The lead drawing is by Lee Lorenz whose passing last Thursday is noted on the
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Mort Gerberg Remembers George Booth The Spill is grateful to Mort Gerberg for the allowing the following remembrance of George Booth to be posted here. Mr. Booth passed away earlier this month at the age of 96. Sarah Booth took this photo of her father, George, and me in 2017, and she thinks it’s one that most completely captures George’s
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