We’re halfway through the two weeks of a double issue (January 2 & 9, 2023), meaning no “Monday Tilley Watch” til next Monday. The good news for cartoonists is that we’re back to submitting work this week after two weeks “off” (many of us do not stop working and continue on). In the meantime, here’s George Booth’s fabulous January 9,
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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Personal History: Cape May’s “Pink House” On this humid morning I decided to pinch a fan from my wife’s studio. I don’t think she’ll mind as she’s twenty-eight hundred miles away in Cal-i-forn-i-a. Heading out of her studio, fan in hand, I took a detour into a narrow adjacent room which is home to some of our New Yorker odds
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Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Time to catch up with this week’s Daily Cartoonists & their cartoons: Monday’s Daily… from Ellis Rosen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Tuesday’s Daily…from Mort Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965. Wednesday’s Daily… from Sueryann Lee, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019. __________________________________________________________________________ Personal
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