The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover Since there’s not a turkey in sight (or anything vaguely related to Thanksgiving) on this week’s cover, I’m showing you a favorite Thanksgiving cover (published in 1968), by the late and truly fabulous New Yorker cover
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Women Laughing NYC Premiere Liza Donnelly’s documentary film, Women Laughing, about women cartoonists of The New Yorker, past and present, had its New York City premiere yesterday at the DOC NYC festival. The film was screened at the IFC Center located in the heart of Greenwich Village. A number of New Yorker cartoonists were on hand to celebrate both at
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Happy 95th, Ed Frascino! Wishing the terrific New Yorker artist, Ed Frascino a very very happy birthday. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965 (his debut cartoon appeared in the issue of September 4th). Read the Spill’s November 2020 interview with him here. Below: A Frascino New Yorker drawing, published November 21 1988 _________________________________________________________________________ The
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Where Is Dr. Millmoss? I was looking through the very first New Yorker “Cartoon Issue” this morning (the issue dated December 15, 1997), rereading Roger Angell’s terrif piece, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” (p.132) in which he wrote: “After I went to boarding school, he [James Thurber] gave me a great interview for the school paper, along with the original of
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