The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: a mid-August moment from Gayle Kabaker The Cartoonists: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There are two duos in this issue…that we know of). No newbies. The Cartoons: Jason Katzenstein’s snail drawing
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: makeup The Cartoonists: A dozen cartoons, and a baker’s dozen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchbook). This week’s newbie is Rachel Ang, the 11th newest addition to the magazine’s stable of cartoonists, and the 89th
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A friend of the Spill who specializes in sending me (scans of) eye-popping books off his shelves, recently sent this in. It’s not the Dr. Seuss illustrated cover that stirred things up around here, or that the book, published in 1933, is by Frank Sullivan (sorry, Seuss, and sorry, Sullivan): No, the exciting thing about this particular copy is what
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker *A Note to Visitors: As of mid-morning the latest issue had not been posted online. There is the slide show of new cartoons but it’s always preferable (to me anyway!) to see the cartoons as they sit
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