The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: What, no cat in the window, ala Sempe? The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Tom Reese, who is the
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Personal History: Learning To Draw Recently, while going through some old papers, I found a couple of drawings my father did — the only two drawings of his I have (as far as I know, he didn’t aspire to become an artist — he became a policeman). I knew the drawings were somewhere in our home, but had I
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I often browse the internet looking at original Thurber drawings (the ones online were usually sold at auction). I noticed, some time back this pair of Thurbers that sold back in 2011: I’ve always wondered where they fit in the Thurber timeline. It wasn’t until this evening, while going through the Michael Rosen Thurber files, that I came across a
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Hokinson Rare Titles I’ve a list on my computer of books I’d love to have, but do not have because they are either pricey or difficult to find or both. Still, it’s fun to look at the covers and hope that one day one or more of these will appear at a library sale or a used book store. I
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