The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Nuts The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in this issue that we know of: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski). There’s also a newbie, Teresa Wong, who
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Pub Day For Send Help! And Murder Book Two goodies out today: Send Help!* a collection of desert island cartoons edited by New Yorker cartoonists Ellis Rosen and Jon Adams And from New Yorker cartoonist, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Murder Book. Info on Send Help! here *full disclosure: several of my drawings appear in this collection. Info on Murder Book here.
Read moreMore Dator One of the fun byproducts of a freshly published book is that we the reading (and cartoon-enjoying) public get to enjoy the surrounding PR. Such is the case with Joe Dator’s just released Inked: Cartoons, Confessions, Rejected Ideas, and Secret Sketches (Prospect Park Books). One of Mr. Dator’s most recent appearances was on Canadian radio’s CBC Listen.
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James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject. James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker
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