Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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Tom Bachtell Is The Latest CCCP Guest The spotlight this week is on Tom Bachtell, who provided illustrations for The New Yorker‘s The Talk Of The Town for twenty-three years. Above: Mr. Bachtell is on the lower left; clockwise from top left: the CCCP’s co-hosts, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Nicole Chrolavicius. Listen to the episode here (it’s #151 for
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Cover Artist Jenny Kroik is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest This week, Jenny Kroik, a New Yorker cover artist, is interviewed by that fun CCCP crew, Vin Coca (upper left), Paul Nesja (upper right), and Nicole Chrolavicius (below left). It’s episode #149, for those keeping track. Listen here. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, March 25-29, 2024 An end
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Erika Sjule Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Erika Sjule (shown above, lower left) who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2022, joins CCCP co-hosts, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Nicole Chrolavicius. Listen here (it’s episode #146, for those keeping track). Visit Erika Sjule’s website here. ___________________________________________________________________ A
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