The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Harry Bliss has the cover, and Roz Chast has a Sketchbook). One duo, that we know of. One newbie: Ellen Liebenthal, who is the 11th addition to the cartoon colosseum this year
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Barbara Shermund…Harvey Award Hall of Famer It’s been a long time coming, but Barbara Shermund has finally received the kind of attention she deserves. Exhibits of her work, a New Yorker tribute by Liza Donnelly, a belated New York Times obit, a book, and now a Harvey Awards Hall of Fame inductee. And…Look for more Shermund in Liza Donnelly’s upcoming documentary
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The Tilley Watch Online, October 6-10, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: P.C. Vey, Gina DeLuca, (a duo)Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Brendan Loper, Adam Douglas Thompson. See them here (in a slide show). _________________________________________________________ Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” NYC Premiere at DOCNYC Text from DOCNYC’s
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What The Beginning Writer Needs Something new to me that popped up during a recent Thurber search. _______________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry 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 the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small
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