The Tilley Watch Online; Photos from the Kovarsky Opening; “Not OK” Cartoonists in Westchester

Among the magazine’s Daily cartoons this week:  Kim Warp’s weary winter weather drawing; Brendan Loper’s tweeter-in-chief cartoon;  Lars Kenseth’s  take on this week’s  unusual White House media moment, and Peter Kuper’s Trumpian map of the world.    Over on Daily Shouts, these were the contributing New Yorker cartoonists: Ellis Rosen and Liana Finck _______________________________________________________________________ Photos From the Kovarsky Opening at

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Kovarsky’s Last Drawing

  Three years ago, I wrote a piece about the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky, and titled the piece “Still Drawing After All These Years” (a version of the piece later appeared on the New Yorker’s website). Had I updated the piece last month I could’ve easily revived that same title. You see,  Kovarsky, at 97 was still drawing. 

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New Yorker Artist Anatol Kovarsky Has Died At Age 97

The sad news arrived here this morning that the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky died this week.  He was 97.  In his honor I’m re-posting the piece, in now slightly edited form,  about Mr. Kovarsky that I wrote three years ago this month. The above photo, by Liza Donnelly, was taken at Mr. Kovarsky’s upper west side apartment, June,

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