Bliss Book & Book Tour Harry Bliss’s new book, You Can Never Die, will be out at the end of this month (April 29th). The next day he’ll be out and about promoting it. Here’s the schedule (for details go here). Visit his website here. ________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Digs Into the April 6, 1935 Issue of
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Now That’s A Cover! One of the delights of looking through the coffee table book, The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker (Knopf, 1989) is discovering new favorite covers, or being reminded of covers I’ve always loved. The above, by Adolph Kronenberg is in the latter category. It’s a wowzer — art that is the city, bringing the
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons Eighteen new cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Brendan Loper has a Sketchpad). No newbies. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist.
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–published in The New Yorker April 10, 2017 _________________________________________________________________________ There’s A New Cartoon Editor In Town The Metropolitan Review — an online “books and culture review magazine” announced the other day that it had appointed Jason Chatfield as its cartoon editor. Mr. Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017 posted the news on Substack:
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