Personal History…Dust Jacket Of Interest…Addams’s Here At The New Yorker Charles Addams’s dust jacket art for Brendan Gill’s 1975 Here At The New Yorker remains, to this day, my favorite of all the books out there about the magazine. I was still in college the year the book was published; Gill’s book, along with Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography
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New Books: A Tallon Anthology, Tyler’s Ephemerata, Karasik’s Complete Hanks Here’s a really wonderful book: a (sort of) biography of New Yorker cover artist, Robert Tallon, published in 2024 by the National Museum of American Illustration & The American Illustrators Gallery (edited by Andrew Goffman). Mr. Tallon, who died in 2015, published thirty-three New Yorker covers, from the issue of
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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 Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No newbies. No duos (that we know of). Always good to see a drawing — a snail drawing no less! — by the late Sam Gross. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the
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Personal History…Latest Addition To The Spill Library: R. Crumb’s Heroes Of Blues, Jazz & Country From various parts of the Hudson Valley, one can glimpse the western edge of the Berkshires. It seemed a shame yesterday not to get outside and see the mountains’ Fall show of leaves and — bonus! — visit my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn.
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