The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Juneteenth The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. Two duos that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Anjali Chandrashekar, who is the 14th new addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this
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Millie von Platen Illustrates NYTs “Summer Reading”Book Review Congrats to Millie von Platen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2020, on illustrating much of the current New York Times “Summer Reading” Book Review (including, as you see here, the cover). Terrif work! ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, May 30 – June 3, 2022 An end of
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Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
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