The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: rain The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Eleven cartoons, eleven cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we’re aware of. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Roz Chast, who began contributing in July of 1978. Very nice to see
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From The Spill’s Sports Desk: Chatfield’s Update Jason Chatfield (New Yorker cartoonist & New Yorker softball team member) has filed this update from the field: After a thrashing at the hands of Forbes in Riverside Park last week (15 to 1… oof!) The New Yorker Softball team had a victory in Central Park against longtime rivals The Paris Review last
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
Read moreThe latest American Bystander (March 2020) has landed on my desk — it’s a treat! Here are The New Yorker cartoonists whose contributions you’ll find in the issue (and in the case of John Cuneo, on the issue’s cover): George Booth (besides a full-page Booth drawing there’s a lovely photo of Mr. Booth on the very last page), Roz Chast
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