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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Alan Dunn’s New Yorker War Cartoons Cover Alan Dunn might be best remembered for his signature densely styled charcoal and grease pencil drawings that appeared for nearly a half-century in the New Yorker, from 1926 through 1974. Or he might be remembered as the most prolific New Yorker artist with the most published cartoons until William Steig overtook him
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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: As mentioned here last week, the cover (shown above), by Edel Rodriguez was early-released. Here (once again) is the Cover Story post with him. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists and seventeen cartoons. One newbie: Jacob Breckenridge,
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Happy 85th Edward Koren! Birthday wishes to one of the greatest New Yorker artists, Edward Koren, born on this day in 1935. Mr. Koren, now in his 58th year of contributing to the magazine, is The New Yorker‘s longest running regular cartoonist contributor. Here’s Mr. Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of
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