The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Issue: This is the second of four planned special issues celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary. The Cover: Seeing this week’s oval-centric cover, I immediately recalled some of The New Yorker covers contributed by the late great Pierre Le-Tan.
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A New Yorker Bound Volume, February – April 1978 Until this week, I’d never come across a New Yorker bound volume containing my first cartoon for the magazine (I found a volume sometime back containing Whitney Darrow, Jr.’s cartoon based on my idea — that drawing appeared in the issue of December 26, 1977).
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: lights The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributor in this issue is Mort Gerberg, whose first New Yorker
Read moreThis sad news via WWD, September 14, 2019: “Illustrator Pierre Le-Tan Dies” To the left is Mr. Le-Tan’s first New Yorker cover. Below, his entry on the A-Z. Pierre Le-Tan Born, Neuilly-sur-seine, France, 1950. Died, September 17, 2019. New Yorker work: one drawing, June 14, 1976. Although his one cartoon technically qualifies him as a member of the Spill’s One
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