We’re now into the second week of a New Yorker double issue, dated January 4th & 11th. The Monday Tilley Watch, usually appearing here on this day, will return next week, when the issue of January 18th appears. In the meantime here’s a Spill Cartoon Detective piece. The Tale Of The Three Barlows…Or Is It Two Barlows? This little tale
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Thurber Thursday: First Read; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s
It’s a funny thing: in all these years of mentioning Thurber’s classic “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” as a life-changer when I was about 16 (most recently in last night’s Norman Rockwell live stream) I’ve always failed to mention that my first encounter with Thurber was several years earlier, when my 10th grade English class was instructed to
Read moreToday’s Daily Cartoonist: Elisabeth McNair; Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf Of Baghdad”At Shrewsbury Int’l Cartoon Festival; Today’s Daily Shouts By…Julia Wertz; Cooper Hewitt’s Steinberg’s Spot The Difference; Dick Buchanan’s Perry Barlow File
Today’s Daily Cartoonist/Cartoon Kids, parents, computers…by Elisabeth McNair. Ms. McNair began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit her website here. ____________________________ Surreal McCoy’s “Wolf Of Baghdad” At Shrewsbury Int’l Cartoon Festival All the info here on the film and the festival. Ms. McCoy (Carol Isaacs) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Visit her website here. _____________________
Read moreCartoons Holding “A Mirror Up to the War Effort”: The New Yorker War Album… & More
The New Yorker War Album, published in 1942, was the very first themed Album of the magazine’s cartoons. Peter Arno’s cover from the issue of February 28, 1942 was selected as the cover. As so often the case for the Album series an Arno drawing led off the collection (“Of course if they don’t bomb Sutton Place, I’m going to
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