The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Polly Adams, who is the 7th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist colosseum this year and the 171st cartoonist brought
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Reminder: Paul Karasik At Rizzoli This Monday Paul Karasik will be speaking about, and signing, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy this Monday. Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here. _________________________________________________________ Gretchen Dow Simpson’s New York Times Obit The New York Times has published an obit for Gretchen
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Cartoonists Abound For “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” A boffo opening reception last night at The Society of Illustrators for their Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit. Over 500 folks jammed into the Society (a record for any event ever held there). Above is a group photo (spliced together from a video taken by
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Greatly looking forward to this exhibit at The Society of Illustrators, curated by long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly Details from the SOI’s social media post: More information here — the drawing above is from Gluyas Williams’s New Yorker series, Fellow Citizens. This one, titled Observation Platform, was published March 11, 1933. See it in full here ________________________________________________________________ Ali Solomon’s
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