The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 24-28, 2022 An end of the week listing of contributors to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, Brendan Loper, J.A.K., Sophie Lucido Johnson, Ellis Rosen .Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Mitch McConnell, Stripped Bare” ____________________________________________________________________ 60 Years Ago In The New Yorker On this snowy-blowy day in the northeast I thought it
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: “Trades” From the Department of “You Never Know What You’ll Find.” While doing my daily browse through the internet the other day I came across a book titled “Trades” — a privately bound collection of New Yorker promotional brochures published in the 1940s and 1950s. Some of these brochures are titled From Our Regular
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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Personal History: First Date Way way way back in March of 1986, the auction house, Guernsey’s offered up what seemed liked a zillion pieces of original art from the worlds of comic art and illustration. The art was displayed in a giant room at the New York Armory along Park avenue. I’d never seen anything like it before, or
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