Pardon this weedsy excursion. I was looking through the newyorker.com archive of back issues when I spied a beautiful Alajalov cover (below) for the issue of October 19, 1946. It made me want to look through the entire issue. Leafing through entire issues always produces something of interest: an ad, a “spot” drawing, a cartoon, a written piece — well,
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Article Of Interest…Amy Hwang From Columbia Spectator, September 13, 2024, “Amy Hwang, BC ’00, on cartoons, architecture, and humor” Ms. Hwang began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online…September 9-13, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Jimmy
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New Yorker Slide Show: “Oh, The Humidity!” Eighteen cartoons about the sticky icky, includes work by, among others, Helen Hokinson, Robert Weber, Liza Donnelly (shown to the left), Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Frank Cotham, Ali Solomon, Maggie Larson, and David Sipress. See
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I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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