Every so often the Spill likes to take a look at the last cartoon published by one of the magazine’s artists. This week it’s a drawing by Peter Arno — the cartoonist the New Yorker‘s Roger Angell called “the magazine’s first genius.” I won’t go on and on here about why Arno is one of the magazine’s greatest — some
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“A Source of Very Special Delight” — The New Yorker Album of Sports & Games; An Ink Spill Super Bowl Tradition
Just in time for two giant sports happenings: the Super Bowl, and the Winter Olympics: The New Yorker Album of Sports & Games. At the bottom of today’s post an Ink Spill Super Bowl Sunday tradition with a football-related drawing of mine from some time back. It only took sixteen years following the first themed New Yorker album of drawings
Read moreRevisiting: The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection
If you liked the cover of the New Yorker‘s very first Cartoon Issue (published in 1997) you might like the cover of The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection (published in 2000). Why? Because all of the cartoon grabs on the 75th Collection cover were on the cover of the Cartoon Issue. Now that’s not a bad thing; any cover
Read moreA 32 Year Old New Yorker Cartoon Sampler
This being a Monday, the Monday Tilley Watch would normally be here, but last week’s issue was a double — we won’t see a new issue until next Monday. So here’s an addendum to yesterday’s post (about the magazine’s 60th anniversary album): A Cartoon Sampler, published in 1985 (wow, what a celebratory mood the magazine was in). Samplers were not
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