Back in 1981 when the U.S. edition of J.J. Sempe’s Displays Of Affection was published, The New Yorker artist, Edward Koren, provided, as you see right there on the cover above, the translation and introduction. The Sempe-Koren connection extended beyond the writing of the intro to the book, as Koren was both friend and link to Sempe’s grand entrance
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Saddened to learn of the passing of the great J.J. Sempe, who began contributing drawings and covers (mostly covers) to The New Yorker in 1978. Here’s a link to his New York Times obit. Mr. Sempe’s work was introduced to The New Yorker’s then art editor Lee Lorenz via Edward Koren. Mr. Sempe’s New Yorker covers often featured a small
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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: A cat in the window. This is, at the least, the 5th cat in a window New Yorker cover since the early 1970s (I’ll eventually go all the way back to the beginning of the magazine’s
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Tilley On The Vineyard Paul Karasik sent the above Tilley-on-the-island drawing to my attention. Wanna see the rest of it, including the caption? Go here to The Vineyard Gazette. Mr Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Sempe On Walls From Swissinfo, “Cartoonist lightshow brightens up Geneva nights” — 54 works by the
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