Tom Bloom, illustrator, fun stuff collector, and good friend of this site, has passed along a scan of a Peter Arno piece I’d not seen before. With his permission, I’m sharing it with you. And, a bonus scan from Mr. Bloom, this fab UK Gluyas Williams cover, also not seen (by me) until it showed up yesterday. ________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily
Read moreWe’re now into the second week of a New Yorker double issue, dated January 4th & 11th. The Monday Tilley Watch, usually appearing here on this day, will return next week, when the issue of January 18th appears. In the meantime here’s a Spill Cartoon Detective piece. The Tale Of The Three Barlows…Or Is It Two Barlows? This little tale
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______________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Bliss’s Addams Homage Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at the recent New Yorker cover by Harry Bliss — billed as a homage to the great New Yorker artist, Charles Addams. How are they alike; how are they different. Read the piece here. ___________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist is… Liana Finck, who began contributing
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The New Yorker Holiday Party 2020 I’ve missed just a few New Yorker holiday parties over the years. Weather did in several (a memorable evening in the early 1990s when my wife and I headed down the Taconic Parkway, cruising along at 20 mph in a snowstorm…we turned back at the Bull’s Head Road exit, with nearly 100 miles
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