Finck’s Wordless Ways From the last page (Sketchbook) of The New York Times Book Review, September 27, 2020 “A Wordless Way To Write A Novel” by Liana Finck, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. _______________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, September 21 – 25, 2020 An end of week listing of the magazine’s artists
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A William Hamilton Marx Brothers Drawing Here’s a fun post on Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery regarding a Marx Brothers-centric William Hamilton New Yorker drawing that appeared in the issue of December 11, 1971 (see below). According to author Steve Stoliar, it once belonged to Groucho Marx. But whither post-Groucho? Read all about it here. ________________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist &
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The Cover: Gayle Kabaker’s lone surfer seems to hit the right mood as we close in on Labor Day (the unofficial end of Summer?). Read a brief Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: There are two duos, one of them new to the magazine: Julia Leigh & Phillip Day. Sophie Lucido Johnson & Sammi Skolmoski, the other duo made their
Read moreOf all the Thurber books published in his lifetime it’s the cover of Let your Mind Alone! that I’ve always liked best. Notice I said the cover, and not the book (I like the book too, but it’s not my favorite). The cover relies on a single Thurber drawing, “Motorman Concealing His Sex Life from a Woman Psychologist” (it appears,
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