The Tilley Watch Online, December 18-22, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: P.C. Vey, Ali Solomon, Brooke Bourgeois, Ellis Rosen, Drew Panckeri. See the Daily Cartoons here. Daily Shouts: Adam Douglas Thompson. ___________________________________________________________________________ The New Yorker’s 1925 Holiday Cover The New Yorker was just 10 months
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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A Great Cartoon…By Charles E. Martin (CEM) Three bound volumes of The New Yorker arrived here yesterday — all from the 1950s. It’s just a coincidence that one of them includes the below drawing by Charles E. Martin (he usually signed his work, both cartoons and covers, “CEM”). It’s one of my all-time favorite New Yorker drawings. If you own
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