We’re halfway through two weeks covered by the New Yorker double issue of December 26th, 2024 & January 6th, 2025. The regular Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday, January 6, 2025. Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws! Here’s a fun short video the terrif Peter Steiner posted on social media. Mr. Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979.
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Jules Feiffer’s NYTs Profile From The New York Times, October 8, 2024, “At Home With Jules Feiffer” — the paper of record visits the noted artist & writer in his upstate New York home. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In the 2000 Valentine’s Day issue of The New York Times, Mr. Feiffer had this to
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
Read moreFrom Publisher’s Weekly, September 23, 2016, “Why Bookstores Matter” — Bob Eckstein talks about some of the stores left out of his forthcoming book. _____________________________________________________________________________ Mike Lynch has posted Jud Hurd’s 1970 Cartoonists Profiles interview with the great Whitney Darrow, Jr. His Ink Spill New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z entry: Whitney Darrow, Jr.
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