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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A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 24-28, 2022 An end of the week listing of contributors to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, Brendan Loper, J.A.K., Sophie Lucido Johnson, Ellis Rosen .Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Mitch McConnell, Stripped Bare” ____________________________________________________________________ 60 Years Ago In The New Yorker On this snowy-blowy day in the northeast I thought it
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