Closing in on the end of a seemingly long double-issue two weeks — a new issue will come out next Monday — I thought it would be fun to try out a new addition to the Spill: First & Last. It’s been an interest of mine, when thinking about certain New Yorker artists, to automatically look into what their first
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— Photo courtesy of Anne Hall Elser Sad news has come this way via Mike Lynch that the great cartoonist Bill Woodman passed away on Saturday. Between 1975 and 2003, Mr. Woodman published one hundred and
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Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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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: How great it is to see a George Booth cover! In addition to the cover, there’s a special “Cover Story” this week featuring Mr. Booth’s daughter Sarah Booth interviewing her father. Within the interview we are treated to
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