A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here! Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Busy busy busy. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchbook). Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Juliana Castro Varon, who is the 17th
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Packing Up Mort Gerberg’s Papers I’ve visited with just a few colleagues at their studios who were in the pre-stage of sending off their archives to an institution. But until Karen Greene (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University Libraries and Librarian/Specialist at Columbia University in the City of New York) posted the series below on Facebook I’d never
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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: Juneteenth The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. Two duos that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Anjali Chandrashekar, who is the 14th new addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this
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