The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: released early last week, post-election. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). Two newbies: Rich North, who is the 18th cartoonist added to The New Yorker‘s cartoonist colosseum this year, and the
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Video Of Interest: Frank Cotham From WKNO -TV, “A Conversation With Frank Cotham.” Mr. Cotham’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of December 13, 1993 (read a Spill piece about the 20th anniversary of that debut here). ____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024 An end of the
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Bob Eckstein’s “The Cartoonist’s Dream Journal” Bob Eckstein, who has been contributing to the magazine since 2007, answers the age-old question asked of cartoonists: “Where do you get your ideas?” From The New Yorker‘s Shouts & Murmurs, November 7, 2024, “The Cartoonist’s Dream Journal”
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“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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