It’s a Tuesday, deadline day for sending in one’s batch of cartoons to The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. In my four plus decades of sending in a weekly batch of cartoons it’s always the very last batch of the year that has a different feel to it. Throughout the year, I send off the weekly batch of drawings
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Video Of Interest: The “Sesame Street” Edition Of The New Yorker Caption Contest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Video Of Interest: The “Sesame Street” Edition of The New Yorker Caption Contest Here’s 7 1/2 minutes of fun: several of Sesame Street’s beloved characters give The New Yorker‘s caption contest a go. Cartoons shown in order of their appearance are by: David Borchart, Joe Dator, Tom Cheney, Ellis Rosen, Harry Bliss, Mick Stevens, Amy Hwang, P.C. Vey, and yours
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Happy Halloween! Here’s a rejected cover submitted to The New Yorker ages and ages ago (sometime in the 1980s) and brought out here on previous Halloweens (what can I say? I like cupcakes). While this one wasn’t green-lighted, another of my Halloween covers was accepted (by then New Yorker editor, Robert Gottlieb, with Lee Lorenz as art editor). Unfortunately that
Read moreMany Many Coffees Ago At The New Yorker; The Tilley Watch Online, Sept. 30 – October 4, 2019
Many Many Coffees Ago At The New Yorker Here’s a fun photo I came across in the Spill’s archives. Taken in 1987 at The New Yorker‘s long-time offices at 25 West 43rd Street.* Left to right: Roz Chast, yours truly, Liza Donnelly, Sam Gross, and Mick Stevens. The occasion may have been the art department’s annual holiday party. *Below: a
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