The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: above and below (?) from the cartoonist, Ed Steed. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: It’s the 3rd “Cartoons & Puzzles Issue,” with numerous pages of the magazine devoted to multi-panel strips. But first, the Spill‘s primary focus: the single
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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 Cover: lights The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributor in this issue is Mort Gerberg, whose first New Yorker
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Art & Artists For many years I’ve had a very small ongoing non-cartoon sideline: doing oil paintings on canvas or board. These are done for a laugh; a different kind of laugh than cartoons. They’re given to family members on birthdays and holidays, or sometimes they’re just placed on a shelf. Left: an example of one of the paintings (done
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