The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Kids in Summer clothing at play on what looks like stryofoam snow among barren trees under pink clouds — or are they pink blossoms? (yes, they are blossoms, according to the title given to the
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Kuper’s MAD Cover Word has reached the Spill that Peter Kuper‘s first MAD cover appears on the magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Mr. Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011, has been a MAD contributor for 26 years, writing and illustrating one of that magazine’s iconic features, Spy vs. Spy. Mr. Kuper tells the Spill that he
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The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil “How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. _________________________________________________________________ From The Dept
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Peter Arno’s Dust Jackets, 1927-1945 A by-product of writing a book is the accumulation of materials hunted and gathered during the research. When I was full speed ahead on researching the Peter Arno biography back in 1999 thru 2015, I came by a lot of “stuff” including all but one of the books you see below. Beggars Abroad, by Jim
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