Back To Birnbaum Nearly five years ago — April 9, 2016 to be exact — I posted “New Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum, Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is” and I showed a scan of Philip Hamburger’s first book, The Oblong Blur with an Abe Birnbaum cover. I loved that cover at first sight, and always had it on my
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The Cover: It’s the Technology Issue, with a cover, by Pascal Campion, reflecting these strange times. When the cover first popped up on my screen I thought it was by Sempe: y’know, the large space, inhabited by a single person — viewed from above. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Sixteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons (Emily Flake has a “Comic Strip” on page
Read moreTo my readers: This being the time we’re in, the online issue has not yet been posted (as of 11:00am), so what follows is a shortened version of The Monday Tilley Watch. Long-time visitors might recall I prefer first sightings of new cartoons in situ, but in order to provide at least some basic info, I’ve gone to the slideshow
Read moreFrom 1943’s Meet The Artist: Steinberg Some years back, hunting through the humor section of a (now closed) used book store in Ellsworth, Maine, I came upon a wonderful catalog, Meet The Artist: An exhibit of self-portraits by living American artists, published in 1943 for an exhibit at San Francisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. Among the exhibit’s 150 portraits
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