The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: lotsa primary colors The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in this issue is Liza Donnelly, whose
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Thurber’s UK Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze On the left above is the US edition of James Thurber’s fifth book, 1935’s The Middle-Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze. On the right is very latest Thurber addition to the Spill library: the UK Hamish Hamilton Middle-Aged Man. The cover drawing is the same —
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Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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It is always a very happy day when a James Thurber original drawing arrives at Spill headquarters. I fell for the one shown below some weeks back. I’d never seen it before, and never seen one like it before. Thurber’s somewhat apprehensive man is so great. I loved the moon and the star. There was something oddly positive about
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