The Wednesday Watch: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; New Market Watch…Air Mail; Donnelly Live-Draws Dem’s Debate; A Susanne Suba Re-Issue

Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Desert drinks by Lila Ash, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018. __________________________________________________________________ New Market Watch Considering the narrowing avenues for cartoonists , it’s always a brighter day when a cartoon-carrying publication is launched.  We now have two (online-only) issues of former Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter’s Air Mail to peruse. You’ll find

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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker (Double) Issue, July 8 & 15, 2019; Today’s Daily Cartoonist’s Cartoon

The Cover: A hot dog cart guy gets some beach time on Peter De Seve’s cover.  Read the Cover Story here. The Cartoonists: The Newbies: Making their New Yorker print debut this week: Victor Varnado and Akeem Roberts. They become the record-setting nineteenth and twentieth new cartoonists entering the magazine’s stable of artists this year and the forty-fifth and forty-sixth

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Personal History: Work Wall

I’ve always worked at home, sometimes in a dedicated corner of the living room, sometimes using the arm of any old comfortable chair as a desk. But for many years I worked in a converted 6′ x 8′ laundry room. My desk faced a wall, part of which is shown above.  One day, after about twenty years of working in

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Article Of Interest: Liza Donnelly…”Let Your Mind Wander…”; Podcast Of Interest: Joe Dator On Fiction & Non-Fiction; A Classic Passage Illustrated By Huguette Martel

Article of Interest: Liza Donnelly From WePresent, “Liza Donnelly: ‘You’ve got to let your mind wander and listen to yourself think’” Ms. Donnelly has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1982.  Visit her website here. _______________________ Podcast of Interest: Joe Dator From Fiction Predictions “We are all handmaids now” —  Joe Dator speaks about his popular New Yorker Daily

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