Exhibit of Interest: “Funny Ladies at The New Yorker: Then and Now” at The Society of Illustrators Something to look forward to mid-summer! The Society of Illustrators will exhibit a survey of the women cartoonists of The New Yorker, as well as a panel discussion you won’t want to miss, moderated by the show’s curator, Liza Donnelly. Some info here,
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of June 4 & 11, 2018
The Fiction/Childhood Issue? Well that’s what it says, in red and black on the Table of Contents: First, the paperwork: See that beautiful masthead just above? It was drawn and designed by Rea Irvin. It’s been missing since Spring of last year after appearing in the New Yorker for 92 years. It was replaced last year by a redrawn version
Read more50 Years Ago This Week: Peter Arno’s Last New Yorker Cartoon
Every so often the Spill likes to take a look at the last cartoon published by one of the magazine’s artists. This week it’s a drawing by Peter Arno — the cartoonist the New Yorker‘s Roger Angell called “the magazine’s first genius.” I won’t go on and on here about why Arno is one of the magazine’s greatest — some
Read moreThe Spill Talks Mirror Balls and Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman
I took notice when Seth Fleishman’s first cartoon, uniformed cows standing over a table, appeared in the New Yorker in the issue of April 4, 2016 (it appears below). Sometimes a new cartoonist’s work (the drawing itself and/or the caption) will appear slightly awkward (my first New Yorker drawing fits both those categories), but Mr. Fleishman’s work seemed like it
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