Here’s something you don’t see too often* (not including parody issues): Eustace Tilley “visiting” another magazine’s cover. The cover illustrator: Kaitlin Brito. Paper Airplane is publishing its first paper issue, and if you look beyond the table in the foreground on the issue’s cover, you’ll see Tilley’s coat and hat, and Ms. Brito’s version of Tilley, seated, with a cup
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Although I’m 99.9% focused on New Yorker “stuff” the Spill library does include a number of non-New Yorker books — most all of them — but not all! — having to do with my budding, pre-New Yorker cartoonist years. I like to keep some of these books near where I work (the others are in another room in the company
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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 Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist (I began contributing in 1977). This week’s
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A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Eleventh Anniversary Issue (February 22, 1936). Of note: special attention is paid to the magazine’s first food critic, Sheila Hibben. Read it here! –Cover by Rea Irvin (of course!). ____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, February 23-27, 2026 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared
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