Continuing a Spill New Year’s Day tradition…here’s a rejected cover idea from long long ago (1980s? 70s?…can’t recall, doesn’t matter). ____________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Looks At Rea Irvin’s New Year’s Art From Attempted Bloggery, “A Happy New Year From Rea Irvin” — a fun way to begin the year, with a survey of Rea Irvin New Year’s art, including a personal
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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 3, 2022; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week of December 20-27, 2021
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Anthony Russo delivers a wonderful cover for this first issue of the new year (a double issue). The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Twenty cartoons, twenty cartoonists (the Spill counts duo efforts as one cartoonist). Duos: There’s
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Thurber Thursday: A Holiday Ad; Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan In Conversation (April 30, 2015)
I ran into the above while browsing the internet for all things Thurber. Not dated, but as you can see it was an ad for the Franklin Simon department store. James Thurber’s Spill entry on the A-Z: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to
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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of November 15, 2021; David Sipress Has A Website (Finally!); Edward Sorel In Virtual Conversation
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Tilting The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). Sam Gross, the magazine’s 5th longest active cartoonist contributor (his first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969)
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