The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The December 28, 2020 Issue: The Cartoon Issue It’s been nine years since The New Yorker‘s last officially designated “Cartoon Issue.” Last year’s “Cartoon Takeover” (subtitled “A Semi-Archival Issue”) was in the ballpark, but not the same
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Today’s Daily Cartoon & Cartoonist Madeline Horwath, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019, on staying awake. …Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon, from Emily Flake, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2008. ______________________________________________________________ Yesterday’s Daily Shouts: “‘Antiques Roadshow’: 2021” by cover artist, Jenny Kroik. _____________________________________________________________ More Bliss & Martin A recent post, part
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Bliss & Martin On “The View” The pr blitz continues for Harry Bliss & Steve Martin’s cartoon collection, A Wealth Of Pigeons. Here they are on ABC’s “The View” _________________________________________________________ The New Yorker has introduced “its own merchandising operation”: “The New Yorker Store”…among the fun products available are Ed Steed playing cards. You can order them here. You say you’re
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Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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