The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker This Week: The New Yorker‘s 96th Anniversary Issue The Cover: Rea Irvin’s classic cover, once traditionally appearing on every anniversary issue of The New Yorker (until the string was broken by Robert Crumb’s “Elvis Tilley” in 1994) has inspired
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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Book On The Horizon: Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies Listed now on Amazon is Very Funny Ladies, the new edition of Liza Donnelly‘s classic 2005 work, Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons (Prometheus). This new edition brings us right up to date on The New Yorker cartoonist landscape as of 2021. Very Funny Ladies will
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A doggie in the window cover, via artist Diana Ejaita. Read a short Q&A with her here. I’m not sure why, exactly, but this later cover made me think of another cover, from long long ago, by
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