Two Cartoonists Draw, Among Other Things, Whales & A Vole Courtesy of The Society Of Illustrators this nearly hour long video of Liza Donnelly in her studio. Half way through I stopped by to draw with her on a big sheet of paper. _______________________________________________________ Fave Photo Of The Day: Roz Chast On NYC Subway Ms. Chast, back in NYC, has
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Personal History: From Zero To Sixty; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s
Personal History: From Zero To Sixty In the summer of 1977, with college behind me and the demands of school work finally over, I was able to focus all of my attention on getting into the New Yorker — my New Yorker or Bust phase. I’d begun sending the magazine work when I was still in high school, and then
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 18, 2020
The Cover: a sign o’ the times graduation piece by Anita Kunz. This is the tenth out the last eleven covers that is coronavirus-related. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: An even dozen cartoons & cartoonists, with a thirteenth, Ed Steed, as this week’s Spot drawing artist. The newbie in the crowd, Oren Bernstein, is the sixth new New Yorker cartoonist of
Read moreThurber Thursday: When Thurber’s Dr. Millmoss Returned To The New Yorker Via Danny Shanahan
I’m on record as believing Thurber’s “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” is a perfect drawing. It appeared in The New Yorker, July 14, 1934, but we didn’t get any kind of closure on Millmoss until February of 1991 when he turned up at a Returns counter in a Danny Shanahan cartoon. Two more Shanahan Thurberesque drawings over the
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