A few thoughts on the art in the latest issue of The New Yorker… The Cover: a moment in a museum, courtesy of Bruce McCall (read a Q&A with him here). The second cover in a row with ( for me) a retro feel to it. I could see Charles Addams doing something like this, or the late great Richard
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The Weekend Spill: Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of December 30, 2019 – January 3, 2020
Henry Martin’s New Yorker Spot Drawings From Princeton University’s Firestone Library Special Collections, “Henry Martin’s Spots” — this piece on Mr. Martin’s considerable Spot Drawing contribution to The New Yorker during his thirty-five year run at magazine. Here’s a fun photo from the article: Henry Martin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Henry Martin (Photo: 1984). Born 1925, Louisville, Kentucky.
Read moreQ & A Of Interest: Ellis Rosen; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s)
Q & A Of Interest: Ellis Rosen From Unsettled, “Q & A With Ellis Rosen, Cartoonist and Illustrator For The New Yorker” Mr. Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit his website here. ____________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist “How To Mindfully Break Up With Your Meditation App” — a duo effort by writer, Julia Edelman and cartoonist,
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: Chuck Jones’s Eustace; The Cartoon Takeover Issue; The Tilley Watch Online, December 22-28, 2019
Here’s something new to me: the great Chuck Jones take-off on Eustace Tilley. The poster can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________ The Cartoon Takeover It was an exciting week in The New Yorker cartoon world, what with the arrival of the magazine’s first ever Cartoon Takeover issue (covered here last Monday). For everyone who says that the first thing they turn
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