The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund! The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work. The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in
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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: Ukraine-centric The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Ed Steed takes care of the “spots” in this issue). The Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in the issue (that we know of): Liza Donnelly
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February 7-11, 2022 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who have contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, J.A.K., Amy Hwang, Paul Noth, Avi Steinberg. Daily Shouts: Jake Goldwasser: “Puppies Who Are Sad For Totally Legitimate Reasons” …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump To Kim:
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker One’s 97th birthday doesn’t come around every day, so this week’s issue (a double) is indeedy-do a special occasion. Rea Irvin, The New Yorker’s first art supervisor (some refer to him as its first editor, but I’m sticking with
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