The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a George Booth Santa Claus. Read Sarah Booth’s reflections on her father. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. The lead drawing is by Lee Lorenz whose passing last Thursday is noted on the
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to
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57 Years Ago In The New Yorker Why look at an issue from 57 years ago you might ask (instead of 50, 60 years ago, or 70, and so on)? The answer is convenience. A bound volume of New Yorkers covering September-October 1965 happens to be hanging around in the vicinity of my desk. It’s hanging around because it’s one
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