The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a Chastian placemat The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has the cover, and Liana Finck has a “Sketchbook”). There’s one duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The
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Edward Koren Scholarship Announced From Seven Days, September 23, 2022, “The Center For Cartoon Studies Launches Ed Koren Scholarship” Link here to the CCS’s announcement. Here’s Edward Koren’s Spill A-Z entry: Edward Koren Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon,
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Audio Of Interest: “Evening At Anaheim” — A Play By James Stevenson Here, via Youtube, is the audio for a live presentation of the late James Stevenson’s Evening At Anaheim” Mr. Stevenson’s Spill A-Z entry: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 – June 16, 2003. Stevenson interned as an
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Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original From Attempted Bloggery, July 22, 2022, “Charles Addams: Wednesday’s Grades” — a report on the recent Sotheby’s auction of an original Addams Family drawing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go cheap. ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, July 18-22, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work
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