The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: War The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Nine cartoons, nine cartoonists. No duos (that we know of). No newbies. The longest active contributor in this issue is Sam Gross, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
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Liza Donnelly’s 2021 NYC Marathon Drawings As in her 1st NYC Marathon two years ago, Liza Donnelly ran and drew. Here’s a piece from Medium about her experience. Ms. Donnelly’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons
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Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.
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