Interview Of Interest: Roger Angell From The New Yorker, this terrif interview of Roger Angell by Willing Davidson, a senior editor at the magazine: “Baseball, Fiction, And Life: Roger Angell’s Era-spanning Career At The New Yorker” Left: Mr. Angell, wearing the hat, with another New Yorker era-spanner, Edward Koren ______________________________________________________________ John Cuneo Sketches A Cover On A Napkin When I
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A Valentine’s Day Cartoon; A Case For Pencils Spotlights Nick Downes; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
— from The New Yorker, Feb. 22, 2016 __________________________________________________________________ A Case For Pencils Spotlights Nick Downes Jane Mattimoe’s terrif blog, A Case For Pencils features Nick Downes this week. Take a look. Mr. Downes, shown here in a sort of Eustace Tilley-ish pose, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit Mr. Downes’s website here. ________________________________________________________ Today’s
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 13-17, 2020; A Note About Next Week’s New Yorker
___________________________________________________________________________________ An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper (twice), Mort Gerberg, David Sipress, J.A.K. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat & Julia Edelman, Emily Flake …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook. To see all of the above and more go here. _____________________________________________________________________________ A Note About Next Week’s New Yorker Oddly,
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 30, 2019 – January 3, 2020
Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings From Princeton University’s Firestone Library Special Collections, “Henry Martin’s Spots” — this piece on Mr. Martin’s considerable Spot Drawing contribution to The New Yorker during his thirty-five year run at magazine. Here’s a fun photo from the article: Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin (Photo: 1984). Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky.
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