48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker This being the second week of a double issue week, there’s no new magazine art to study this rainy morn. As regular visitors to the Spill know, I occasionally do some time-traveling on these off-weeks, and look at an issue (usually selected at random) from the past. I wanted some small
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What To Do When There’s No Art Meeting I’m guessing that most New Yorker readers are unaware that the magazine’s cartoonists meet a self-imposed weekly deadline for submitting their drawings (“self-imposed” is in italics because it’s important to note). Even those cartoonists with contracts are not obligated to send in every week — or any week, if you’re in a
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ToonStack #2 The second ToonStack Newsletter has been posted. The contributors include Navied Dahvanian, Hillary Campbell, Kendra Allenby, Johnny DiNapoli, Ellis Rosen, J.A.K., Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Avi Steinberg, and Sofia Warren. See all the work here. _______________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 15-19, 2021 An end of week listing of
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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: It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen a cover by Benoit van Innis; his cover of November 19, 2007 seems to be the last until now (if anyone knows of a more recent one, please advise).
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