50 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker It’s always fun time traveling through The New Yorker‘s archives. This morning I took a look at the issue of April 28, 1975. The truly wonderful cover is by the late great
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Tag: James Stevenson
Thurber Thursday: The Dog Wish; Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt; Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A William Steig Paperweight
“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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Tuesday Spill: First And Last New Yorker Drawing… John Corcoran
First & Last New Yorker Drawing: John Corcoran A decade ago, when I interviewed Lee Lorenz (The New Yorker‘s former Art/Cartoon editor), one of the new-to-me pieces of information I heard was that The New Yorker cartoonist John Corcoran had been supplying a good number of
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Weekend Spill: Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute; Found! The “Talking-Animal” Cartoon Issue; The Tilley Watch Online, January 1 – 5, 2024
Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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