A Rejected Easter Cover Submitted Long Long Ago Here’s a cover idea I submitted toThe New Yorker over thirty years ago (it was rejected). I’ve always been kind of fond of it.
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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of April 21, 2025
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Edith Zimmerman, who is the third addition to the magazine’s cartoonist colosseum this year, and the 168th brought in since Emma Allen took the cartoon
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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of September 30, 2024
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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Thurber Thursday: “A Few Kind Of Sad Ones Mixed In”
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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