From the Archive: The Spill’s Trad Easter Sunday (Rejected) Cover The below was submitted to The New Yorker (and rejected) a long long time ago. I like dusting it off and letting it see some sunlight once a year. _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online…The Week
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a cover related to the issue’s theme, “Fall Style & Design” The Cartoonists & Cartoons Eight cartoons, eleven cartoonists (Roz Chast has a Sketchbook; Hilary Campbell has a Sketchpad; Paul Karasik has the Caption Contest drawing). One duo,
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The New Yorker’s Latest Digital Issue…The Format Of Things to Come? With the arrival this past week of “The Family Issue,” The New Yorker‘s second digital issue (the first, the “Interviews Issue,” appeared last February), it might be time to crinkle our face and ask: is this The New Yorker‘s future? I haven’t a clue if these special digital issues
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