The cartoonist, Danny Shanahan, who contributed drawings to The New Yorker from September of 1988 through last year, died early this morning, according to his wife, Janet Stetson. He was 64, just days shy of his 65th birthday. His death was due to complications from surgery. Danny became known at first as a pun-centric cartoonist, but soon enough he was
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A New Yorker Rarity Listed On Ebay I rarely mention the interesting New Yorker-centric things that turn up on Ebay, or other auction sites, but this particular book, What! No Pie Charts? deserves its moment in the Spill spotlight. As you see in the title page below, the text is by Corey Ford, the fellow who named Eustace Tilley. The
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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: A polar moment from John Cuneo’s unbelievably restless-pen. Link to a Q&A with him here. And be sure to check out his new book,Coping Skills: Helpful Drawings, out May 1st from Fantagraphics The Cartoonists: Eleven cartoons, eleven
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Cover Artist & Cartoonist Cuneo’s New Book From Fantagraphics, May 1st, Coping Skills: Helpful Drawings, by the fab New Yorker cover artist & cartoonist, John Cuneo. Here’s some of what his publisher had to say about Mr. Cuneo’s work: When John Cuneo isn’t gracing the cover of The New Yorker, being featured in Esquire, or winning every prodigious illustration award
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