The Cover: As mentioned last Friday, Barry Blitt‘s Bloomberg exploding cigar cover (above) was rush-released. Here’s a short piece about the cover’s subject by magazine’s art editor, Francoise Mouly. The Cartoonists The Cartoons A likely too-deep-in-the-weeds observation: I believe (someone please correct me if I’m wrong!) this is the first issue of the magazine in contemporary times composed fully of
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of February 3, 2020; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Daily Shouts Cartoonist
The Cover: a snowy bridge. Read the Q&A with the cover artist here, and see the pretty digital snowflakes fall. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: In a throw back to earlier Monday Tilley Watches, I’ll take a quick tour through all the cartoons in the issue; a mostly text-driven drive-by of the work. The first drawing, by David Sipress, references the
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: A Memorial For New Yorker Artist Dana Fradon; The New Yorker Artists Who Contributed To Newyorker.com This Week; Meet The Artist (1943): Barbara Shermund
A Memorial For Dana Fradon A Memorial is set for The New Yorker artist, Dana Fradon, who passed away this Fall. The public is invited. Photo: l-r, The New Yorker artist, Charles Saxon, The New Yorker‘s former Art Editor, James Geraghty, Mr. Fradon, and The New Yorker artist, Whitney Darrow, Jr.. Photo courtesy Sarah Geraghty Herndon Memorial Info: Where: the
Read moreDonnelly’s Holiday Leftovers; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Julia Suits (And Yesterday’s: Pat Achilles); More Spills: Jenny Kroik, Flanders’ Links On TCJ, A New Yorker State Of Mind On Two Holiday Issues from 1930; Bob Eckstein’s Daily News Op-Ed
A favorite day after Thanksgiving drawing from Liza Donnelly, published in The New Yorker November 26, 2007. ________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s) Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: Julia Suits on a popular writer’s retreat. Ms. Suits began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. Visit her website here. Yesterday’s Daily cartoonist & cartoon: Pat Achilles on quid
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