The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A doggie in the window cover, via artist Diana Ejaita. Read a short Q&A with her here. I’m not sure why, exactly, but this later cover made me think of another cover, from long long ago, by
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Tuesday’s Spill: Bliss & Martin On “The View”; “The New Yorker Store” Introduced; The Daily Cartoonist; NYPL Interview Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil
Bliss & Martin On “The View” The pr blitz continues for Harry Bliss & Steve Martin’s cartoon collection, A Wealth Of Pigeons. Here they are on ABC’s “The View” _________________________________________________________ The New Yorker has introduced “its own merchandising operation”: “The New Yorker Store”…among the fun products available are Ed Steed playing cards. You can order them here. You say you’re
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of November 23, 2020
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Kadir Nelson returns –his last cover appeared just five issues before this latest. He speaks here with The New Yorker‘s cover editor (official title: art editor), Francoise Mouly. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Fifteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons (the
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Thurber Thursday: An Algonquin Ad
Looking through a late 1930s issue of The New Yorker this morning (the February 4, 1939 issue to be exact) my eyes were drawn to an ad for Frank Case’s Tales Of A Wayward Inn (published in 1938). I’d never seen the ad before. The Wayward Inn is The Algonquin. Frank Case was, at that time, the owner and manager.
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