A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May
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In One Issue Paging through a long ago issue of The New Yorker — the issue of January 21, 1956 to be exact — I was struck by the number of ads using the work of New Yorker cartoonists. There’s Peter Arno for The Pajama Game (the drawing appeared on the cover of Playbill and on the soundtrack album), and
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 3-7, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, J.A.K., Evan Lian, Jeremy Nguyen, Bob Eckstein. Daily Shouts Cartoonists: Liana Finck, J.A.K.. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook ______________________________________________________________________ A Few Thoughts On Peter Arno, Born 118 Years Ago
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Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021, “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie
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