Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Ukraine-centric The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Ed Steed takes care of the “spots” in this issue). The Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in the issue (that we know of): Liza Donnelly
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Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest: Edward Koren We’ll have to wait til March of 2022 to see “Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but it’ll be worth it. All the information here. Edward Koren’s A-Z Spill entry: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work:
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Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two
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